Isaiah 62:12
They will be called, "The Holy People, the Ones Protected by the Lord." You will be called, "Sought After, City Not Abandoned."
Isaiah 62:4
You will no longer be called, "Abandoned," and your land will no longer be called "Desolate." Indeed, you will be called "My Delight is in Her," and your land "Married." For the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married to him.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Deuteronomy 26:19
Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he has said.
Isaiah 35:9
No lions will be there, no ferocious wild animals will be on it -- they will not be found there. Those delivered from bondage will travel on it,
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:9
The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.
Hebrews 13:5
Your conduct must be free from the love of money and you must be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you and I will never abandon you."
Psalm 107:2
Let those delivered by the Lord speak out, those whom he delivered from the power of the enemy,
Isaiah 42:16
I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.
Ezekiel 34:11-16
"'For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.
Matthew 16:18
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
Matthew 18:10-13
"See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
Isaiah 60:21
All of your people will be godly; they will possess the land permanently. I will plant them like a shoot; they will be the product of my labor, through whom I reveal my splendor.
Isaiah 65:1
"I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; I appeared to those who did not look for me. I said, 'Here I am! Here I am!' to a nation that did not invoke my name.
Luke 15:4-5
"Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."
John 4:23
But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
John 10:16
I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.
1 Peter 1:18-19
You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,
Revelation 5:9
They were singing a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.