Isaiah 43:4

Because His people are precious and loved in His sight, God gives others in exchange for them. It reveals the astonishing worth God assigns to His redeemed out of sheer love.

Cross-references · 21

• Deut 7:6–8For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• 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.
• Rev 3:9Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
• John 16:27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
• Gen 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
• Hos 11:1“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
• Deut 32:9–14For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
• John 17:23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
• Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
• Deut 14:2For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
• Deut 26:18Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
• Ps 135:4For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
• Mal 1:2“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
• 1 Pet 1:7that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Mal 3:17They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
• Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• John 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
• John 17:26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

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