Jeremiah 31:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgement and justice.

Psalm 103:17

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children's children;

Psalm 25:6

Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; For they have been ever of old.

Song of Solomon 1:4

Draw me; we will run after thee: The king hath brought me into his chambers: We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will make mention of thy love more than of wine: Rightly do they love thee.

Isaiah 43:4

Since thou hast been precious in my sight, and honourable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men for thee, and peoples for thy life.

Isaiah 45:17

But Israel shall be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

Isaiah 49:14

But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.

Hosea 11:1

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

Hosea 11:4

I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat before them.

Malachi 1:2

I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob;

Romans 8:30

and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Romans 9:13

Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.

Deuteronomy 33:26

There is none like unto God, O Jeshurun, Who rideth upon the heaven for thy help, And in his excellency on the skies.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Yea, he loveth the peoples; All his saints are in thy hand: And they sat down at thy feet; Every one shall receive of thy words.

Deuteronomy 4:37

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

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, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 John 4:19

We love, because he first loved us.