Exo 33:16, Lev 20:24-26, Num 23:9, Deu 7:6, 1Sa 8:5, Psa 106:35, Joh 15:19 | ESV | STEP | For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight , I and your people ? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct , I and your people , from every other people on the face of the earth ?

Exodus 33:16

16 For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? ^aIs it not in your going with us, ^bso that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”

Leviticus 20:24-26

24 But ^cI have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land ^dflowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, ^ewho has separated you from the peoples. 25 ^fYou shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. 26 ^gYou shall be holy to me, ^hfor I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

Numbers 23:9

9 For from the top of the crags ⁱI see him,
from the hills I behold him;
behold, ^ja people dwelling alone,
and ^knot counting itself among the nations!

Deuteronomy 7:6

6 “For ^lyou are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be ^ma people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

1 Samuel 8:5

5 and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. ⁿNow appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

Psalms 106:35

35 but they ^omixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.

John 15:19

19 ^pIf you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^qyou are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.