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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;

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Fulfilled here1 Peter 2:9

Peter applies Sinai's covenant identity language directly to the church, calling believers 'a people for God’s own possession'.

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: