Deuteronomy 7:6-8

A Chosen People

6 "For p you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be p a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but q it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping r the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 14:2
    For you are a people holy to the Lord your God,...
    Deuteronomy 26:19
    And that he will set you in praise and in fame ...
    Deuteronomy 28:9
    The Lord will establish you as a people holy to...
    Exodus 19:6
    And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and...
    Exodus 22:31
    You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you s...
    Jeremiah 2:3
    Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of...
    Amos 3:2
    You only have I known of all the families of th...
    1 Peter 2:9
    But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, ...
    Exodus 19:5
    Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice...
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 14:2
    For you are a people holy to the Lord your God,...
    Deuteronomy 26:19
    And that he will set you in praise and in fame ...
    Deuteronomy 28:9
    The Lord will establish you as a people holy to...
    Exodus 19:6
    And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and...
    Exodus 22:31
    You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you s...
    Jeremiah 2:3
    Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of...
    Amos 3:2
    You only have I known of all the families of th...
    1 Peter 2:9
    But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, ...
    Exodus 19:5
    Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice...
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 10:15
    Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fath...
    Isaiah 43:4
    Because you are precious in my eyes, and honore...
    Isaiah 63:9
    In all their affliction he was afflicted, and t...
    Jeremiah 31:3
    The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have ...
    Hosea 11:1
    When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out o...
    Malachi 1:2
    I have loved you," says the Lord. But you say, ...
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 32:13
    Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'
    Psalms 105:9 - 11
    The covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac.
    Luke 1:72 - 73
    To show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant.
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