Isaiah 41:8
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8 But you, Israel, (A)my servant,
Jacob, (B)whom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, (C)my friend;
James 2:23
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23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, (A)“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a (B)friend of God.
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Deuteronomy 14:2
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2 For (A)you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Exodus 19:5-6
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5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be (A)my treasured possession among all peoples, for (B)all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a (C)kingdom of priests and (D)a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
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2 Chronicles 20:7
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7 Did you not, our God, (A)drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of (B)Abraham your friend?
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John 15:14-15
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14 You are (A)my friends (B)if you do what I command you. 15 (C)No longer do I call you servants,[a] for the servant (D)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for (E)all that I have heard from my Father (F)I have made known to you.
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- John 15:15 Or bondservants, or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface); likewise for servant later in this verse and in verse 20
Isaiah 51:2
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2 Look to Abraham your father
and to Sarah who bore you;
for (A)he was but one when I called him,
that I might bless him and multiply him.
Isaiah 44:21
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The Lord Redeems Israel
21 Remember these things, O Jacob,
and Israel, for you are (A)my servant;
I formed you; you are my servant;
(B)O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
Isaiah 44:1-2
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Israel the Lord's Chosen
44 “But now hear, (A)O Jacob my servant,
Israel whom I have chosen!
2 Thus says the Lord who made you,
(B)who formed you from the womb and will help you:
(C)Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
(D)Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 29:22
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22 Therefore thus says the Lord, (A)who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:
“Jacob shall no more be ashamed,
no more shall his face grow pale.
Psalm 33:12
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12 (A)Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has (B)chosen as his heritage!
Isaiah 43:1
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Israel's Only Savior
43 But now thus says the Lord,
(A)he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel:
(B)“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
(C)I have called you by name, you are mine.
Psalm 135:4
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Galatians 4:22-31
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22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, (A)one by a slave woman and (B)one by a free woman. 23 But (C)the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while (D)the son of the free woman was born through promise. 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two (E)covenants. (F)One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;[a] she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But (G)the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written,
(H)“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”
28 Now you,[b] brothers, (I)like Isaac, (J)are children of promise. 29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh (K)persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, (L)so also it is now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? (M)“Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but (N)of the free woman.
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- Galatians 4:25 Some manuscripts For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia
- Galatians 4:28 Some manuscripts we
Jeremiah 33:24
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24 “Have you not observed that these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two clans that he chose’? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
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Isaiah 48:12
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The Lord's Call to Israel
12 “Listen to me, O Jacob,
and Israel, whom I called!
I am he; (A)I am the first,
and I am the last.
John 8:33-44
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33 They answered him, (A)“We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, (B)everyone who practices sin is a slave[a] to sin. 35 (C)The slave does not remain in the house forever; (D)the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet (E)you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. 38 (F)I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard (G)from your father.”
You Are of Your Father the Devil
39 They answered him, (H)“Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, (I)“If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, 40 but now (J)you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth (K)that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. 41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, (L)“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have (M)one Father—even God.” 42 Jesus said to them, (N)“If God were your Father, you would love me, for (O)I came from God and (P)I am here. (Q)I came not of my own accord, but (R)he sent me. 43 (S)Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot (T)bear to hear my word. 44 (U)You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. (V)He was a murderer from the beginning, and (W)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. (X)When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
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Matthew 3:9
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9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, (A)‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from (B)these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
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Isaiah 63:16
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16 For (A)you are our Father,
though Abraham does not know us,
and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our Father,
(B)our Redeemer from of old is your name.
Isaiah 49:3
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Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:3 Or I will display my beauty
Deuteronomy 10:15
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15 Yet (A)the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
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Leviticus 25:42
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42 For they are (A)my servants,[a] whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
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- Leviticus 25:42 Hebrew slaves
Romans 9:4-8
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4 They are (A)Israelites, and to them belong (B)the adoption, (C)the glory, (D)the covenants, (E)the giving of the law, (F)the worship, and (G)the promises. 5 To them belong (H)the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, (I)who is God over all, (J)blessed forever. Amen.
6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 7 and not all are children of Abraham (K)because they are his offspring, but (L)“Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but (M)the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
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Psalm 105:42-45
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Psalm 105:6
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