Jeremiah 31:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The Lord appeared from of old to me [Israel], saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn you and continued My faithfulness to you. [Deut. 7:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Jehovah appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Common English Bible

³ the LORD appeared to them from a distance: I have loved you with a love that lasts forever. And so with unfailing love, I have drawn you to myself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ The Lord appeared to me from a distance: "And I have loved you in perpetual charity. Therefore, showing pity, I have drawn you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea, I have loved thee with everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.

Jeremiah 31:3 Cross References

1 Kings 10:9

Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord loved Israel forever, he has made you king to execute justice and righteousness.”

Psalm 103:17

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,

Psalm 25:6

Be mindful of your mercy, O Lord, and of your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.

Song of Solomon 1:4

Draw me after you; let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.

Isaiah 43:4

Because you are precious in my sight and honored and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life.

Isaiah 45:17

But Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded ever again.

Isaiah 49:14

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.”

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Hosea 11:4

I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.

Malachi 1:2

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,

Romans 8:30

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Romans 9:13

As it is written, “I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.”

Deuteronomy 10:15

yet the Lord set his heart in love on your ancestors alone and chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 33:26

There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, majestic through the clouds.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Indeed, O favorite among peoples, all his holy ones were in your charge; they marched at your heels, accepted direction from you.

Deuteronomy 4:37

And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them. He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,

2 Timothy 1:9

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace, and this grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

James 1:18

In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

1 John 4:19

We love because he first loved us.