Deuteronomy 7:7-9

A Chosen People

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. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, s the faithful God t who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

  1. 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, ...
  2. 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.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 49:7
    Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and ...
    1 Corinthians 1:9
    God is faithful, by whom you were called into t...
    1 Corinthians 10:13
    No temptation has overtaken you that is not com...
    2 Corinthians 1:18
    As surely as God is faithful, our word to you h...
    1 Thessalonians 5:24
    He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do...
    2 Thessalonians 3:3
    But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you...
    2 Timothy 2:13
    If we are faithless, he remains faithful - for ...
    Hebrews 10:23
    Let us hold fast the confession of our hope wit...
    1 John 1:9
    If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just...
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 5:10
    But showing steadfast love to thousands of thos...
    Exodus 20:6
    But showing steadfast love to thousands of thos...
    2 Chronicles 6:14
    And said, "O Lord, God of Israel, there is no G...
    Nehemiah 1:5
    And I said, "O Lord God of heaven, the great an...
    Nehemiah 9:32
    Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty,...
    Daniel 9:4
    I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession...
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