Psalm 105:6
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Isaiah 44:1-2
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Israel the Lord's Chosen
44Â âBut now hear, (A)O Jacob my servant,
Israel whom I have chosen!
2Â 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.
John 15:16
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16Â You did not choose me, but (A)I chose you and appointed you that you should go and (B)bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that (C)whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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Isaiah 41:14
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14Â Fear not, you (A)worm Jacob,
you men of Israel!
I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord;
your (B)Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 41:8
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8Â But you, Israel, (A)my servant,
Jacob, (B)whom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, (C)my friend;
Psalm 135:4
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Psalm 106:5
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5Â that I may look upon the prosperity of your (A)chosen ones,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
that I may glory with your inheritance.
Psalm 105:42
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Deuteronomy 7:6-8
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6Â âFor (A)you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be (B)a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7Â 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, 8Â but (C)it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping (D)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.
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Exodus 3:6
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6Â And he said, (A)âI am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.â And Moses hid his face, for (B)he was afraid to look at God.
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Romans 9:4-29
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4Â 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. 5Â 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.
6Â But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 7Â and not all are children of Abraham (K)because they are his offspring, but (L)âThrough Isaac shall your offspring be named.â 8Â 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. 9Â For this is what the promise said: (N)âAbout this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.â 10Â And not only so, but (O)also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11Â though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or badâin order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of (P)him who callsâ 12Â she was told, (Q)âThe older will serve the younger.â 13Â As it is written, (R)âJacob I loved, but Esau I hated.â
14Â What shall we say then? (S)Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! 15Â For he says to Moses, (T)âI will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.â 16Â So then it depends not on human will or exertion,[a] but on God, who has mercy. 17Â For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, (U)âFor this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.â 18Â So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
19Â You will say to me then, âWhy does he still find fault? For (V)who can resist his will?â 20Â But who are you, O man, (W)to answer back to God? (X)Will what is molded say to its molder, âWhy have you made me like this?â 21Â (Y)Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump (Z)one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 22Â What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience (AA)vessels of wrath (AB)prepared for destruction, 23Â in order to make known (AC)the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he (AD)has prepared beforehand for gloryâ 24Â even us whom he (AE)has called, (AF)not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? 25Â As indeed he says in Hosea,
(AG)âThose who were not my people I will call âmy people,â
and her who was not beloved I will call âbeloved.ââ
26Â (AH)âAnd in the very place where it was said to them, âYou are not my people,â
there they will be called (AI)âsons of the living God.ââ
27Â And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (AJ)âThough the number of the sons of Israel[b] be as the sand of the sea, (AK)only a remnant of them will be saved, 28Â for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.â 29Â And as Isaiah predicted,
(AL)(AM)âIf the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
(AN)we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah.â
Footnotes
- Romans 9:16 Greek not of him who wills or runs
- Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel
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