It is not because you are more numerous than all [other] nations that the Lord has preferred you, and the Lord has chosen you: for you are fewer in number than all [other] nations.

But because the Lord has loved you, and He is keeping the oath which He swore to your fathers; the Lord has brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord has redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.

And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.

He has chosen out His inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which He loved. Pause.

He sends His word to Jacob, His ordinances and judgments to Israel.

He has not done so to any [other] nation; and He has not shown them His judgments.

The Lord appeared to him from afar, [saying], I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.

Early in the morning were they cast off, the king of Israel has been cast off: for Israel is a child, and I loved him, and out of Egypt have I called his children.

I have loved you, says the Lord. And you said, How have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? Says the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,

for [the children] not yet being born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works but of Him who calls,

As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

We love Him because He first loved us.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; and the Lord your God chose you to be to Him a peculiar people beyond all nations that [are] upon the face of the earth.

granting his petition to him that prays; and He blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength cannot man prevail.

My times are in Your hands; deliver me from the hand of my enemies,

Assemble His saints to Him, those that have engaged in a covenant with Him upon sacrifices.

And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put My fear into their heart, that they may not depart from Me.

And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

My Father, who has given [them] to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of My Father's hand.

And I am no longer in the world, yet these are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those which You have given Me, that they may be one just as We [are].

But now I am coming to You, and these things I speak in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil [one].

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

But in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

Whenever Christ [who is] our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

who by the power of God [are] being guarded through faith for the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Now it came to pass that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them.

Then they went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had come out [of], sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and being of sound mind. And they were afraid.

And the [woman] had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and was listening to His word.

"I am indeed a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the law of our forefathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.

[My] son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it within you;

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, in that you received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,