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 ^(A)it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping ^(B)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.

¹⁷ Beware ^(A)lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ ¹⁸ You shall remember the Lord your God, for ^(B)it is he who gives you power to get wealth, ^(C)that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

¹² And I sent ^(A)the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was ^(B)not by your sword or by your bow.

Treasure in Jars of Clay

⁷ But we have this treasure in ^(A)jars of clay, ^(B)to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

⁶ Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to ^(A)Zerubbabel: ^(B)Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

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.

³⁷ And because ^(A)he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them^[a] and brought you out of Egypt ^(B)with his own presence, by his great power, ^38 (C)driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,