Since you were precious in My sight,
You have been honored,
And I have (A)loved you;
Therefore I will give men for you,
And people for your life.

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“For you are a [a]holy people to the Lord your God; (A)the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The Lord did not set His (B)love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were (C)the least of all peoples; but (D)because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep (E)the oath which He swore to your fathers, (F)the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of [b]bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:6 set-apart
  2. Deuteronomy 7:8 slavery

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of (A)darkness into His marvelous light;

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(A)I will make you a great nation;
(B)I will bless you
And make your name great;
(C)And you shall be a blessing.

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Indeed I will make (A)those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed (B)I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

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23 I in them, and You in Me; (A)that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

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27 (A)for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and (B)have believed that I came forth from God.

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God’s Continuing Love for Israel

11 “When Israel was a [a]child, I loved him,
And out of Egypt (A)I called My (B)son.

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  1. Hosea 11:1 Or youth

For (A)the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

10 “He found him (B)in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He (C)kept him as the [a]apple of His eye.
11 (D)As an eagle stirs up its nest,
Hovers over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Carrying them on its wings,
12 So the Lord alone led him,
And there was no foreign god with him.

13 “He(E) made him ride in the heights of the earth,
That he might eat the produce of the fields;
He made him draw honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock;
14 Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock,
(F)With fat of lambs;
And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the choicest wheat;
And you drank wine, the (G)blood of the grapes.

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:10 pupil

Now (A)therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and (B)keep My covenant, then (C)you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is (D)Mine. And you shall be to Me a (E)kingdom of priests and a (F)holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

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The Lord has appeared [a]of old to me, saying:
“Yes, (A)I have loved you with (B)an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have (C)drawn you.

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  1. Jeremiah 31:3 Lit. from afar

that (A)the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though (B)it is tested by fire, (C)may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

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For (A)the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His [a]special treasure.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 135:4 precious possession

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