1Pe 2:9, 1Jo 3:8, 5:19, Rev 20:2-3 | ESV | STEP | But you are a chosen race , a royal priesthood , a holy nation , a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light .

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1 Peter 2:9

9 But you are ^aa chosen race, ^ba royal ^cpriesthood, ^da holy nation, ^ea people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you ^fout of darkness into ^ghis marvelous light.

1 John 3:8

8 ^hWhoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was ⁱto destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 5:19

19 We know that we are from God, and ^jthe whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Revelation of John 20:2-3

2 And he seized ^kthe dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and ^lbound him for a thousand years, 3 and threw him into ^mthe pit, and shut it and ⁿsealed it over him, so that ^ohe might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.