Isaiah 62:12

Zion's New Identity

¹¹ Jehovah has announced to the ends of the earth: Tell my people, Zion, your salvation is coming. His reward for us and recompense are with him.' ¹² And they will call them, “The holy people,
The redeemed of the Lord”;
And you will be called, “Sought out, a city not forsaken.”

Redeemed of the Lord

Jehovah

Isaiah 62:4

You will no longer be called Deserted, and your land will no longer be called Destroyed. You will be named My Delight. Your land will be named Married (owned as a wife). Jehovah is delighted with you, and your land will be married.

1 Peter 2:9

You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Deuteronomy 26:19

He will set you high above all nations that he has made, for praise, fame, and honor. You will be a consecrated people to Jehovah your God, as he has spoken.

Isaiah 35:9

No lions will be there. No fierce animals will pass that way! Those whom Jehovah has rescued will travel home by that road.

Deuteronomy 7:6

You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be his own special people out of all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:9

Jehovah will establish you as a holy people to himself. He swore this to you, if you obey the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in His ways.

Hebrews 13:5

You should be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have, for he has said: I will not leave you. I will not forsake you.

Psalm 107:2

Let the redeemed by Jehovah say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead my blind people by roads they have never traveled. I will turn their darkness into light and make rough country smooth before them. I will keep my promises without fail.

Ezekiel 34:11-16

The Lord Jehovah says: 'I will search for my sheep. I will seek them out.

Matthew 16:18

You are Peter (Greek: petros: piece of rock), and on this rock-mass (Greek: petra: mass of rock) (referring to Jesus) I will build my congregation. The entrance to the grave (Greek: Hades) will not have power to stop it.

Matthew 18:10-13

Do not treat these little ones badly. I tell you that angels represent them in the presence of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 28:20

Teach them to observe all the things I have commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

Isaiah 60:21

Then all your people will be righteous and they will possess the land everlastingly. They will be the seedlings I have planted, the honored work of my hands.

Isaiah 65:1

I permitted myself to be sought by those who did not ask for me. Those who did not seek me found me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said: 'Here I am, here I am.'

Luke 15:4-5

If you have a hundred sheep and lose one of them, what do you do? You leave the other ninety-nine sheep in the pasture and go looking for the one you lost until you find it.

Luke 19:10

The Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

John 4:23

But the hour comes and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father with spirit and truth. The Father seeks such people to worship him.

John 10:16

I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I will also bring them. They will hear my voice and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

1 Peter 1:18-19

Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,

Revelation 5:9

They sing a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you bought persons for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation.