16 Bible Verses about God's Love For Israel
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He shall choose out a heritage for us, even the worship of Jacob, whom he loved. Selah.
"I have loved you," sayeth the LORD: And yet ye say, "Wherein hast thou loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" sayeth the LORD, "Yet have I loved Jacob, and hated Esau: Yea I have made his hills waste, and his heritage a wilderness for dragons."
And blessed be the LORD thy God which had a lust to thee, to set thee on the seat of Israel, because the LORD loved Israel for ever, and therefore made thee king, to do equity and righteousness."
When Israel was young, I loved him: and called my son out of the land of Egypt.
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are loved for the fathers' sake.
How loved he the people? All his saints are in his hand. They shall set themselves down at thy feet, and receive of thy words.
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out with his presence and with his mighty power of Egypt:
only the LORD had a lust unto thy fathers to love them, and therefore chose you their seed after them of all nations, as it is come to pass this day.
It was not because of the multitude of you, above all nations, that the LORD had lust unto you and chose you: For ye were fewest of all nations.
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, therefore he brought you out of Egypt with a mighty hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage; even from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Unto Benjamin he said, "The LORD's darling shall dwell in safety by him and keep himself in the haven by him continually, and shall dwell between his shoulders."
And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Jedidiah, of the LORD's behalf.
Then said the LORD to me, "Go yet thy way and vow an adulterous woman, whom thy neighbour loveth as the LORD doth the children of Israel: howbeit, they have respect to strange gods, and love the wine cans."
