Isaiah 41:8

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Summary

Isaiah 41:8

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

Thou

The seed

My friend

2 Chronicles 20:7

John 15:14

James 2:23

Bible References

Thou

But now this is what the LORD says, the one who created you, Jacob, the one who formed you, Israel: "Do not be afraid, because I've redeemed you. I've called you by name; you are mine.

"But now listen, Jacob my servant and Israel whom I have chosen:

"Listen to these things, Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called. I am the One: I am the first, I am even the last.

He said to me: "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will glorify myself.'

And now if you carefully obey me and keep my covenant, you are to be my special possession out of all the nations, because the whole earth belongs to me,

Since they're my servants whom I've brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.

because you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God chose you to be his people, his treasured possession from all the nations on the face of the earth."

yet the LORD committed himself to love your ancestors and did so! He chose you their descendants after them from all the nations, as it is today.

because you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD chose to make you his precious possession from among all the nations of the earth."

How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen as his own inheritance.

You descendants of Abraham, his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

It is Jacob whom the LORD chose for himself Israel as his personal possession.

"Haven't you noticed what these people have been saying? "The LORD rejected the two families that he had chosen!' They have contempt for my people and no longer consider them a nation.

The seed

Don't think you can say to yourselves, "We have father Abraham!' because I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

He is also the ancestor of the circumcised those who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

who are Israelis. To them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the worship, and the promises.

Why, then, was the Law added? Because of transgressions, until the descendant came about whom the promise pertained. It was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman.

My friend

"LORD God of our ancestors, you are the God who lives in heaven, are you not? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, don't you? In your own hands you grasp both strength and power, don't you? As a result, no one can oppose you, can they? You are our God, who expelled the former inhabitants of this land right in front of our people Israel, aren't you? Then you gave it to your friend Abraham's descendant forever, didn't you?

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

And so the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." And so he was called God's friend.