Jeremiah 31:3
In a far-off land the Lord will manifest himself to them. He will say to them, 'I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.
Hosea 11:4
I led them with leather cords, with leather ropes; I lifted the yoke from their neck, and gently fed them.
Deuteronomy 7:7-9
It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you -- for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.
Deuteronomy 33:3
Surely he loves the people; all your holy ones are in your power. And they sit at your feet, each receiving your words.
Malachi 1:2
"I have shown love to you," says the Lord, but you say, "How have you shown love to us?" "Esau was Jacob's brother," the Lord explains, "yet I chose Jacob
Psalm 103:17
But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, and is faithful to their descendants,
Isaiah 54:8-9
In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you," says your protector, the Lord.
Deuteronomy 10:15
However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples -- as is apparent today.
Isaiah 45:17
Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.
John 6:44-45
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Romans 11:28-29
In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
Titus 3:3-6
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 John 4:19
We love because he loved us first.
Deuteronomy 4:37
Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power
Deuteronomy 33:26
There is no one like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the sky to help you, on the clouds in majesty.
Song of Songs 1:4
Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! The Maidens to the Lover: We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Beloved to Her Lover: How rightly the young women adore you!
Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.
Romans 8:30
And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
Romans 9:13
just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
Ephesians 1:3-5
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:13-16
But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
2 Timothy 1:9
He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
James 1:18
By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.