Jeremiah 31:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ יהוה appeared to me from afar, saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore I shall draw you with loving-commitment.

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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.

Jeremiah 31:3 Cross References

1 Kings 10:9

“Blessed be יהוה your Elohim, who delighted in you, to put you on the throne of Yisra’ĕl! Because יהוה has loved Yisra’ĕl forever, therefore He made you sovereign, to do right-ruling and righteousness.”

Psalm 103:17

But the loving-commitment of יהוה Is from everlasting to everlasting Upon those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children,

Psalm 25:6

Zayin Remember, O יהוה, Your compassion and Your loving-commitments, For they are from everlasting.

Song of Solomon 1:4

Draw me! We run after you. The sovereign has brought me into his inner rooms. We exult and rejoice in you. We praise your carnal-love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.

Isaiah 43:4

“Since you were precious in My eyes, you have been esteemed, and I have loved you. And I give men in your place, and peoples for your life.

Isaiah 45:17

Yisra’ĕl shall be saved by יהוה with an everlasting deliverance. You are not to be ashamed nor hurt, forever and ever.

Isaiah 49:14

But Tsiyon says, “יהוה has forsaken me, and יהוה has forgotten me.”

Hosea 11:1

“When Yisra’ĕl was a child, I loved him, and out of Mitsrayim I called My son.

Hosea 11:4

“I drew them with ropes of man, with cords of love, and I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. And I bent down, fed them.

Malachi 1:2

“I have loved you,” said יהוה. “But you asked, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ ”Was not Ěsaw Ya‛aqoḇ’s brother?” declares יהוה. “And I love Ya‛aqoḇ,

Romans 8:30

And whom He ordained beforehand, these He also called, and whom He called, these He also declared right. And whom He declared right, these He also esteemed.

Romans 9:13

as it has been written, “Ya‛aqoḇ I have loved, but Ěsaw I have hated.”

Deuteronomy 10:15

יהוה delighted only in your fathers, to love them. And He chose their seed after them, you above all peoples, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 33:26

“O Yeshurun, there is no one like Ěl, riding the heavens to help you, and on the clouds, in His excellency.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Indeed, He loves the peoples, all His set-apart ones are in Your hand. And they, they sat down at Your feet, receiving Your Words.

Deuteronomy 4:37

And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought you out of Mitsrayim with His Presence, with His great power,”

2 Timothy 1:9

who has saved us and called us with a set-apart calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and favour which was given to us in Messiah יהושע before times of old,

James 1:18

Having purposed it, He brought us forth by the Word of truth, for us to be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, who according to His great compassion has caused us to be born again to a living expectation through the resurrection of יהושע Messiah from the dead,

1 John 4:19

We love Him because He first loved us.