'Beloved' in the Bible

He was still speaking when a luminous cloud spread over them; and a voice was heard from within the cloud, which said, "This is My Son dearly beloved, in whom is My delight. Listen to Him."

So also in Hosea He says, "I will call that nation My People which was not My People, and I will call her beloved who was not beloved.

Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of spirit, and secure perfect holiness through the fear of God.

to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One.

knowing as we do, brethren, that you are beloved by God and that He has chosen you.

And they went up over the whole breadth of the earth and surrounded the encampment of God's people and the beloved city. But fire came down from Heaven and consumed them;