Deuteronomy 7:8

God chose Israel simply because he loved them and kept his oath to the fathers, redeeming them from Egypt. Election flows from God's own love and faithfulness.

Cross-references · 27

• Exod 20:2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• Exod 32:13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
• Jer 31:3Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
• Eph 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Isa 43:4Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.
• Deut 10:15Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
• Exod 13:14It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
• Exod 13:3Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
• Luke 1:72–73to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
• Heb 6:13–17For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,
• Luke 1:55As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever.”
• Exod 12:41–42At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
• Ps 105:42For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
• 2 Sam 22:20He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
• Matt 11:26Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• Deut 9:4–5Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land”; because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
• Ps 44:3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
• Deut 4:34Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
• Ps 105:8–10He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
• Deut 4:37Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
• Gen 22:16–18and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
• Zeph 3:17Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
• Deut 4:20But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
• Titus 3:3–7For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• 1 Sam 12:22For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.

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