And because He has loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them and brought you out of Egypt before Him with His mighty power,

Jehovah has longed for your fathers, to love them; and He chose their seed after them, you out of all peoples, as it is this day.

And you shall not only show me the kindness of Jehovah while I still live, that I not die;

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let Jehovah require it at the hand of David's enemies.

But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who abuse you and persecute you,

that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,

And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel; and his nurse took him up and fled. And it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go to the king, because your servant is lame.