“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with
“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them,
Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and gr
Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nation
“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
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
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peo
Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I wil
You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good
Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriar
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people wil
So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is li
and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give t
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and
You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense dar
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed wort
And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isa
Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”