⁶ For you are a holy people^(A) belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own possession^(B) out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

¹⁵ Yet the Lord had his heart set on your ancestors and loved them.^(A) He chose their descendants after them – he chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.^(B)