Deuteronomy 7:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:19

When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;

Psalm 105:12

When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

Psalm 105:6

O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.

Psalm 44:3

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

Isaiah 51:2

Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.

Isaiah 63:9

It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

Ezekiel 20:5

And say to them, This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I took Israel for myself, when I made an oath to the seed of the family of Jacob, and I gave them knowledge of myself in the land of Egypt, saying to them with an oath, I am the Lord your God;

Ezekiel 36:22

For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went.

Matthew 7:14

For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

Luke 12:32

Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Romans 11:6

But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

Romans 9:18

So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

Romans 9:21

Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:37

And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

1 John 3:1

See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

1 John 4:10

And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.