Isaiah 45:4
For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen one, I have called you by name. I have given you a title of honor, although you do not know me.
Isaiah 41:8-9
However you, O Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham, my friend,
Acts 17:23
As I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: To An Unknown God. What you worship as unknown, this I will proclaim to you.
Isaiah 44:1
Listen, O Jacob, my servant, Listen Israel, whom I have chosen.
Exodus 19:5-6
If you will obey me and are faithful to the terms of my covenant, then out of all the nations you will be my own special possession, for all the earth is mine.
Isaiah 43:3-4
I AM JEHOVAH YOUR GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, YOUR SAVIOR. Egypt is the ransom I exchanged for you. Sudan and Seba are the price I paid for you.
Isaiah 43:14
This is what Jehovah, your redeemer, and the Holy One of Israel, says: For your sake I will send an army to Babylon. I will bring back all the Babylonian refugees in the ships that they take pride in.
Isaiah 44:28-1
I say of Cyrus: 'He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please. He will say of Jerusalem, 'Let it be rebuilt,' and of the Temple, 'Let its foundations be laid.'
Jeremiah 50:17-20
The people of Israel are like scattered sheep that lions have chased. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria. The last to gnaw at their bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
Matthew 24:22
Unless those days are shortened, no flesh will be saved. For the sake of the chosen ones (selected individuals), those days will be shortened.
Mark 13:20
Unless Jehovah shortened the days no flesh would be saved. For the sake of his chosen anointed he will shorten the days.
Romans 9:6
It is not as if the word of God failed. Not all who come from Israel are really Israel.
Romans 11:7
What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks. The chosen ones have obtained it, and the rest were blinded (rendered stupid) (hardened) (made insensitive).
Galatians 4:8-9
However at that time, you did not know God. You were in bondage to things that are really not gods at all.
Ephesians 2:12
You were separate from Christ at that time, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. You were strangers from the covenants of the promise. You had no hope and were without God in the world.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.