Malachi 1:2
I have loved you, says LORD. Yet ye say, How have thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, says LORD. Yet I loved Jacob,
Jeremiah 31:3
LORD appeared of old to me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn thee.
Isaiah 41:8-9
But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
Malachi 2:17
Ye have wearied LORD with your words. Yet ye say, How have we wearied him? In that ye say, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of LORD, and he delights in them, or Where is the God of justice?
Malachi 3:7-8
From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts. But ye say, How shall we return?
Genesis 25:23
And LORD said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger.
Genesis 27:27-30
And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that LORD has blessed.
Genesis 27:33
And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou came, and have blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed.
Genesis 28:3-4
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou may be a company of peoples,
Genesis 28:13-14
And, behold, LORD stood above it, and said, I am LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which thou lay, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed.
Genesis 32:28-30
And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for thou have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.
Genesis 48:4
and said to me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Deuteronomy 4:37
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 10:15
Only LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples as at this day.
Deuteronomy 32:8-14
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
Isaiah 43:4
Since thou have been precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have loved thee, therefore I will give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy life.
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?
Jeremiah 2:31
O generation, see ye the word of LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to thee?
Malachi 1:6-7
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy na
Malachi 3:13-14
Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
Luke 10:29
But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
Romans 9:10-13
And not only so, but also Rebecca having bed from one man, our father Isaac
Romans 11:28-29
They are indeed enemies toward the good-news for your sake, but toward selection, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.