Deuteronomy 7:7 - Tree of Life Version

⁷ “It is not because you are more numerous than all the peoples that Adonai set His love on you and chose you—for you are the least of all peoples.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The Lord did not set His love upon you and choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the fewest of all people.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:

Common English Bible

⁷ It was not because you were greater than all other people that the LORD loved you and chose you. In fact, you were the smallest of peoples!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ It is not because you surpass all the nations in number that the Lord has joined with you and has chosen you, for you are the least numerous of any people.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Not because you surpass all nations in number is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you: for you are the fewest of any people:

Deuteronomy 7:7 Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:19

When you were but a few in number, very few, and strangers in it,

Psalm 105:12

When they were but few in number, few indeed, and foreigners in it,

Psalm 105:6

O seed of Abraham, His servant, O children of Jacob, His chosen ones.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, Adonai, not to us, but to Your Name be the glory— because of Your love and Your faithfulness.

Psalm 44:3

With Your hand You displaced nations, but You planted them. You afflicted peoples, and You drove them out.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you. For when I called him, he was but one, then I blessed him and multiplied him.”

Isaiah 63:9

In all their affliction He was afflicted. So the angel of His presence saved them. In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, then He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

Ezekiel 20:5

Say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: On the day I chose Israel, I lifted up My hand to the seed of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I lifted up My hand to them saying, ‘I am Adonai your God.’

Ezekiel 36:22

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘I do not do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for My holy Name, which you profaned among the nations wherever you went.

Matthew 7:14

How narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”

Luke 12:32

Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father chose to give you the kingdom.

Romans 11:6

But if it is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Romans 9:18

So then He has mercy on whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.

Romans 9:21

Does the potter have no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for common use?

Deuteronomy 1:10

Adonai your God has multiplied you—and here you are today, like the stars of the heavens in number.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt with 70 persons, and now Adonai your God has made you like the stars of the heavens in number.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people to Adonai your God—from all the peoples on the face of the earth, Adonai has chosen you to be His treasured people.

Deuteronomy 4:37

Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them. Then He brought you out from Egypt with His presence, by His great power—

1 John 3:1

See how glorious a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God’s children—and so we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

1 John 4:10

This is love—not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atonement for our sins.