Quotations and Allusions

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Leviticus 11:44 OT

  For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

• Leviticus 19:2 OT

  “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

• 1 Peter 1:24 NT

  For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

• 1 Peter 1:25 NT

  but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

• Isaiah 40:6-8 OT

  The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like…

• 1 Peter 2:6 NT

  Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

• 1 Peter 2:7 NT

  For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”

• 1 Peter 2:9 NT

  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.

• Exodus 19:6 OT

  and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

• 1 Peter 2:22 NT

  who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

• Isaiah 53:9 OT

  They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

• 1 Peter 2:24 NT

  He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

• Isaiah 53:5 OT

  But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

• 1 Peter 3:10-12 NT

  For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,…

• Psalms 34:12-16 OT

  Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it. Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His…

• 1 Peter 3:14 NT

  But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

• 1 Peter 3:15 NT

  But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

• Isaiah 8:12 OT

  “Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.

• Isaiah 8:13 OT

  Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

• 1 Peter 5:5 NT

  Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

• 2 Peter 2:22 NT

  But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

• Proverbs 26:11 OT

  As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

• Revelation 2:27 NT

  He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

• Psalms 2:9 OT

  You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”