Jehovah did not set His love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;

Therefore know that Jehovah your God, He is God, the faithful Mighty God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

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.

Yes, He loves the people; all His saints are in Your hand; they sit down at Your feet; everyone receives Your Words.

There is no one like the Mighty God of Jeshurun, riding the Heavens for your help, and in His majesty upon the clouds.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and I called My Son out of Egypt.

I have loved you, says Jehovah. Yet you say, In what way have You loved us? Was not Esau the brother to Jacob? says Jehovah; yet I loved Jacob,

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

We love Him because He first loved us.

But the mercy of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children,

But Israel shall be saved in Jehovah with an everlasting salvation. You shall not be ashamed nor humiliated to everlasting eternity.

In overflowing wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy upon you, says Jehovah your Redeemer.

For this is like the waters of Noah to Me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should never again overflow the earth, so I have sworn to not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

Indeed, concerning the gospel they are enemies because of you, but concerning the election they are beloved because of the fathers.

For the gifts and the calling of God are without regret.

But we owe thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

Therefore, brethren, stand firm and hold on to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

Draw me away! Daughters of Jerusalem: We will run after you. Shulamite: The king has brought me into his chambers. Daughters of Jerusalem: We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will remember your love more than wine. Shulamite: Rightly do they love you.

I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. And I was to them as those who lift off the yoke from their jaws; and I held out food to them.

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

It is written in the Prophets, And they shall all be taught by God. Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.

Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ,

having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

but God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

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.

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Of His own purpose He brought us forth by the Word of Truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,