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12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
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Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
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:
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)We are here taught to give to God the glory, I. Of his common providence towards all the children of men. Though he has endued man with understanding and freedom of will, yet he reserves to himself the government of him, and even of those very faculties by which he is qualified to govern himself. 1. The children of men are all under his eye, even their hearts are so; and all the motions and operat…
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