The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness
In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” s
I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words
We love because He first loved us.
The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you
He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He gr
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in th
And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in m
But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them,
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LO
“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriar
Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will p
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and gr
“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”