Then the LORD said to him, "I am the LORD, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own."

Then and there the LORD made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,

"I make a vow by my own name---the LORD is speaking---that I will richly bless you. Because you did this and did not keep back your only son from me,

God said, "I am who I am. You must tell them: 'The one who is called I AM has sent me to you.'

Tell the Israelites that I, the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, have sent you to them. This is my name forever; this is what all future generations are to call me.

You, LORD God, chose Abram and led him out of Ur in Babylonia; you changed his name to Abraham.

You found that he was faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him. You promised to give him the land of the Canaanites, the land of the Hittites and the Amorites, the land of the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Girgashites, to be a land where his descendants would live. You kept your promise, because you are faithful.

I am the LORD your God; I strengthen you and tell you, 'Do not be afraid; I will help you.' "

God created the heavens and stretched them out; he fashioned the earth and all that lives there; he gave life and breath to all its people. And now the LORD God says to his servant,

You will open the eyes of the blind and set free those who sit in dark prisons.

"I alone am the LORD, the only one who can save you.

I predicted what would happen, and then I came to your aid. No foreign god has ever done this; you are my witnesses.

The LORD, who rules and protects Israel, the LORD Almighty, has this to say: "I am the first, the last, the only God; there is no other god but me.

"I am the LORD; there is no other god. I will give you the strength you need, although you do not know me.

I create both light and darkness; I bring both blessing and disaster. I, the LORD, do all these things.

"I am the LORD, the God of all people. Nothing is too difficult for me.

I will not punish you in my anger; I will not destroy Israel again. For I am God and not a mere human being. I, the Holy One, am with you. I will not come to you in anger.

God is not like people, who lie; He is not a human who changes his mind. Whatever he promises, he does; He speaks, and it is done.

Israel's majestic God does not lie or change his mind. He is not a human being---he does not change his mind."

They will disappear, but you will remain; they will all wear out like clothes. You will discard them like clothes, and they will vanish.

There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning.

"I am the first and the last," says the Lord God Almighty, who is, who was, and who is to come.

I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end."

But God was merciful to his people. He forgave their sin and did not destroy them. Many times he held back his anger and restrained his fury.

but were rebellious and disloyal like their ancestors, unreliable as a crooked arrow.

But for those who honor the LORD, his love lasts forever, and his goodness endures for all generations

The LORD is our God; his commands are for all the world.

He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and his promise to Isaac.

Don't you know? Haven't you heard? The LORD is the everlasting God; he created all the world. He never grows tired or weary. No one understands his thoughts.

Even those who are young grow weak; young people can fall exhausted.

The LORD's unfailing love and mercy still continue,

Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise.

We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life!

We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose.

And so those whom God set apart, he called; and those he called, he put right with himself, and he shared his glory with them.

Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son---will he not also freely give us all things?

Because they reject the Good News, the Jews are God's enemies for the sake of you Gentiles. But because of God's choice, they are his friends because of their ancestors.

For God does not change his mind about whom he chooses and blesses.

And so I am sure that God, who began this good work in you, will carry it on until it is finished on the Day of Christ Jesus.

We must thank God at all times for you, friends, you whom the Lord loves. For God chose you as the first to be saved by the Spirit's power to make you his holy people and by your faith in the truth.

God called you to this through the Good News we preached to you; he called you to possess your share of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.