Isaiah 41:8

God turns to address Israel as His chosen servant, descended from Abraham His friend.

Cross-references · 27

• Jas 2:23And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
• Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
• 2 Chr 20:7Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
• Deut 14:2For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
• John 15:14–15Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
• Isa 51:2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
• Isa 44:21Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
• Isa 44:1–2Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
• Ps 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
• Isa 29:22Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
• Isa 43:1But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
• Ps 135:4For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
• Isa 48:12Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
• Gal 4:22–31For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
• Jer 33:24Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
• John 8:33–44They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
• Isa 63:16Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
• Lev 25:42For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
• Deut 10:15Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
• Isa 49:3And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
• Matt 3:9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
• Rom 9:4–8Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
• Ps 105:42–45For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
• Ps 105:6O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
• Deut 7:6–8For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
• Gal 3:19Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
• Rom 4:12–13And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

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