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 thus saith Jehovah, that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

And now hear, Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen:

Hearken unto me, Jacob, and thou Israel, my called. I am HE; I, the first, and I, the last.

And he said unto me, Thou art my servant, Israel, in whom I will glorify myself.

And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples for all the earth is mine --

For they are my bondmen, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as men sell bondmen.

For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Only, Jehovah took pleasure in thy fathers, to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day.

For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself, out of all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance!

Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

For Jah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, Israel for his own possession.

Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

The seed

And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been under bondage to any one; how sayest thou, Ye shall become free?

and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of the circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman.

My friend

Hast not thou, our God, dispossessed the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and given it for ever to the seed of Abraham, thy friend?

Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.

And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.