“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he w
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—fo
for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of
Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descend
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I w
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and
Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will hi
But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
But now, this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I ha
“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they desp
Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free
Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father;
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them,
And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God ca
He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory.”
Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of th
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possessio
O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise re
And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the fai