But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
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Fulfilled here (this verse)Exodus 19:5
Peter applies Sinai's covenant identity language directly to the church, calling believers 'a people for God’s own possession'.
“Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;”