 | Francis Ripley - 1973 - 332 σελίδες
...elsewhere God's holy Mother has appeared to remind his people that he is still with them. "You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous... | |
 | F. F. Bruce - 1973 - 124 σελίδες
...baptismal confession). They are entering a new society, which is described in Old Testament idiom as "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people" (2: 9). They are "living stones" in a spiritual temple, bonded together by the "cornerstone chosen... | |
 | George Wolfgang Forell - 1975 - 324 σελίδες
...Christians are priests through the new birth in Baptism. In the words of the New Testament: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.... | |
 | Richard F. Lovelace - 1979 - 460 σελίδες
...offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ"; and they serve among the nations as "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people," declaring the wonderful deeds of him who called them out of darkness into his marvelous light (1 Pet.... | |
 | 1981 - 288 σελίδες
...Once they were pagans, nobodies. Now they are called "priests." The church is built of these people, "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people" (2:9). There is a rich, complex imagery in this passage. On the one hand, surely there is intended... | |
 | Raymond Edward Brown - 1981 - 164 σελίδες
...priesthood of all believers, shared by laity and clergy alike). We hear from I Peter 2:9, "You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation . . . God's own people," called by God Himself to manifest His wonderful works. I have no doubt that if one were to use the... | |
 | Joseph J. Allen - 1981 - 236 σελίδες
...names peculiar to the old Israel are now given to the New Israel, to the Christian Church: "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light"... | |
 | Liturgy Training Publications - 2004 - 548 σελίδες
...to their different orders, offices, and actual participation.75 In this way, the Christian people, "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people," expresses its cohesion and its hierarchical ordering.76 All, therefore, whether they are ordained ministers... | |
 | 2004 - 196 σελίδες
...Church is holy because it is set apart for God and for God's missionary purposes in history. 'You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous... | |
 | Abigail Rian Evans - 2004 - 520 σελίδες
...But now we are God's people. Once you had not received mercy: But now we have received mercy. You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people: That we may declare the wonderful deeds of God who called us out of darkness into God's marvelous light.... | |
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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 
