14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Chosen People
• Covenant
• Messianic Promise
• Truth

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Pet 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• 2Cor 1:20 — For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
• Acts 3:25 — Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
• Acts 13:46 — Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting lif
• Acts 15:15 — And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
• Acts 26:6 — And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
• Acts 28:28 — Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
• Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
• Eph 2:13 — But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
• Ezek 16:61 — Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
• Gal 4:4 — But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• Gal 4:4 — But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• Heb 3:1 — Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
• Heb 8:2 — A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
• Isa 24:15 — Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
• Isa 42:6 — I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
• Isa 49:5 — And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be
• Isa 66:18 — For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
• John 1:11 — He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
• John 1:11 — He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
• John 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
• John 10:16 — And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
• John 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• Luke 1:54 — He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
• Luke 1:70 — As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
• Luke 2:32 — A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
• Luke 24:47 — And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• Mark 7:27 — But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
• Matt 10:5 — These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
• Matt 15:24 — But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• Matt 15:24 — But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• Mic 7:20 — Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
• Phil 2:7 — But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
• Ps 69:13 — But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
• Ps 98:2 — The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
• Ps 103:17 — But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
• Ps 117:2 — For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
• Ps 138:2 — I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
• Rom 2:9 — Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
• Rom 3:3 — For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?