⁶ For you are ^(A)a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be ^(B)a people for His ^[a]own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ^[b]earth.

⁷ “^(C)The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but because the Lord loved you and kept the ^(D)oath which He swore to your forefathers, ^(E)the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of ^[c]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹ Know therefore that the Lord your God, ^(F)He is God, ^(G)the faithful God, ^(H)who keeps ^[d]His covenant and ^[e]His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who ^(I)love Him and keep His commandments; ¹⁰ but ^(J)repays those who hate Him to ^[f]their faces, to destroy ^[g]them; He will not delay ^[h]with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. ¹¹ Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

⁹ But you are ^(A)a chosen race, a royal ^(B)priesthood, a ^(C)holy nation, ^(D)a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you ^(E)out of darkness into His marvelous light;