Bible Cross References
thou
Isaiah 43:1
Israel, the LORD who created you says, "Do not be afraid---I will save you. I have called you by name---you are mine.
Isaiah 44:1
The LORD says, "Listen now, Israel, my servant, my chosen people, the descendants of Jacob.
Isaiah 44:2
I am the LORD who created you; from the time you were born, I have helped you. Do not be afraid; you are my servant, my chosen people whom I love.
Isaiah 44:21
The LORD says, "Israel, remember this; remember that you are my servant. I created you to be my servant, and I will never forget you.
Isaiah 48:12
The LORD says, "Listen to me, Israel, the people I have called! I am God, the first, the last, the only God!
Isaiah 49:3
He said to me, "Israel, you are my servant; because of you, people will praise me."
Exodus 19:5
Now, if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own people. The whole earth is mine, but you will be my chosen people,
Exodus 19:6
a people dedicated to me alone, and you will serve me as priests."
Leviticus 25:42
The people of Israel are the LORD's slaves, and he brought them out of Egypt; they must not be sold into slavery.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
6
Do this because you belong to the LORD your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.
7
"The LORD did not love you and choose you because you outnumbered other peoples; you were the smallest nation on earth.
8
But the LORD loved you and wanted to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors. That is why he saved you by his great might and set you free from slavery to the king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:15
But the LORD's love for your ancestors was so strong that he chose you instead of any other people, and you are still his chosen people.
Deuteronomy 14:2
You belong to the LORD your God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth.
Psalm 33:12
Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD; happy are the people he has chosen for his own!
Psalm 105:6
Psalm 105:42-45
42
He remembered his sacred promise to Abraham his servant.
43
So he led his chosen people out, and they sang and shouted for joy.
44
He gave them the lands of other peoples and let them take over their fields,
45
so that his people would obey his laws and keep all his commands. Praise the LORD!
Psalm 135:4
He chose Jacob for himself, the people of Israel for his own.
Jeremiah 33:24
"Have you noticed how people are saying that I have rejected Israel and Judah, the two families that I chose? And so they look with contempt on my people and no longer consider them a nation.
the seed
Matthew 3:9
And don't think you can escape punishment by saying that Abraham is your ancestor. I tell you that God can take these rocks and make descendants for Abraham!
John 8:33-44
33
"We are the descendants of Abraham," they answered, "and we have never been anybody's slaves. What do you mean, then, by saying, 'You will be free'?"
34
Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: everyone who sins is a slave of sin.
35
A slave does not belong to a family permanently, but a son belongs there forever.
36
If the Son sets you free, then you will be really free.
37
I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me, because you will not accept my teaching.
38
I talk about what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you."
39
They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." "If you really were Abraham's children," Jesus replied, "you would do the same things that he did.
40
All I have ever done is to tell you the truth I heard from God, yet you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like this!
41
You are doing what your father did." "God himself is the only Father we have," they answered, "and we are his true children."
42
Jesus said to them, "If God really were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own authority, but he sent me.
43
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.
44
You are the children of your father, the Devil, and you want to follow your father's desires. From the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.
Romans 4:12
He is also the father of those who are circumcised, that is, of those who, in addition to being circumcised, also live the same life of faith that our father Abraham lived before he was circumcised.
Romans 4:13
When God promised Abraham and his descendants that the world would belong to him, he did so, not because Abraham obeyed the Law, but because he believed and was accepted as righteous by God.
Romans 9:4-8
4
They are God's people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God's promises;
5
they are descended from the famous Hebrew ancestors; and Christ, as a human being, belongs to their race. May God, who rules over all, be praised forever! Amen.
6
I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.
7
Nor are all of Abraham's descendants the children of God. God said to Abraham, "It is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I promised you."
8
This means that the children born in the usual way are not the children of God; instead, the children born as a result of God's promise are regarded as the true descendants.
Galatians 3:19
What, then, was the purpose of the Law? It was added in order to show what wrongdoing is, and it was meant to last until the coming of Abraham's descendant, to whom the promise was made. The Law was handed down by angels, with a man acting as a go-between.
Galatians 4:22-31
22
It says that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman, the other by a free woman.
23
His son by the slave woman was born in the usual way, but his son by the free woman was born as a result of God's promise.
24
These things can be understood as a figure: the two women represent two covenants. The one whose children are born in slavery is Hagar, and she represents the covenant made at Mount Sinai.
25
Hagar, who stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, is a figure of the present city of Jerusalem, in slavery with all its people.
26
But the heavenly Jerusalem is free, and she is our mother.
27
For the scripture says, "Be happy, you childless woman! Shout and cry with joy, you who never felt the pains of childbirth! For the woman who was deserted will have more children than the woman whose husband never left her."
28
Now, you, my friends, are God's children as a result of his promise, just as Isaac was.
29
At that time the son who was born in the usual way persecuted the one who was born because of God's Spirit; and it is the same now.
30
But what does the scripture say? It says, "Send the slave woman and her son away; for the son of the slave woman will not have a part of the father's property along with the son of the free woman."
31
So then, my friends, we are not the children of a slave woman but of a free woman.
my friend
2 Chronicles 20:7
You are our God. When your people Israel moved into this land, you drove out the people who were living here and gave the land to the descendants of Abraham, your friend, to be theirs forever.
John 15:14
And you are my friends if you do what I command you.
John 15:15
I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father.
James 2:23
And the scripture came true that said, "Abraham believed God, and because of his faith God accepted him as righteous." And so Abraham was called God's friend.