Bible Cross References
Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 4:37
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,
Deuteronomy 7:7
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;
Deuteronomy 7:8
but because Jehovah loves you, and to keep the oath which He has sworn to your fathers, Jehovah has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Numbers 14:8
If Jehovah has delighted in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us; a land flowing with milk and honey.
Romans 9:13-23
13
As it is written, Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.
14
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Let it not be!
15
For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.
16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
17
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared in all the earth.
18
Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
19
You will say to me then, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will?
20
No, rather, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?
21
Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?
22
What if God, determining to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath rendered fit unto destruction,
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and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand unto glory,