Isaiah 45:4
For Jacob My servant's sake, and Israel My elect, I have even entitled you. I have named you, though you have not known me.
Isaiah 41:8-9
But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend;
Acts 17:23
For as I passed by and saw the things you worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Not knowing then whom you worship, I make Him known to you.
Isaiah 44:1
Yet now hear, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen;
Exodus 19:5-6
And now if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above all the nations; for all the earth is Mine.
Isaiah 43:3-4
For I am Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you.
Isaiah 43:14
So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all of them as fugitives, and the Chaldeans, whose shout is in the ships.
Isaiah 44:28-1
who says of Cyrus, He is My shepherd, and shall do all My pleasure; even saying to Jerusalem, You shall be built; and to the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.
Jeremiah 50:17-20
Israel is a scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon crunched his bones.
Matthew 24:22
And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.
Mark 13:20
And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, whom He has chosen, He has shortened the days.
Romans 9:6
Not however that the Word of God has failed, for not all those of Israel are Israel;
Romans 11:7
What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened
Galatians 4:8-9
But then, indeed, not knowing God, you served as slaves to those not by nature being gods.
Ephesians 2:12
and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
(not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God),