Deuteronomy 7:7

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:19

At that time, they were small in number, they were few and were settlers there.

Psalm 105:12

And they believed his words, and they sang his praises.

Psalm 105:6

We have sinned, as have our fathers. We have acted unjustly; we have wrought iniquity.

Psalm 115:1

Alleluia. I had confidence, because of what I was saying, but then I was greatly humbled.

Psalm 44:3

You are a brilliant form before the sons of men. Grace has been poured freely into your lips. Because of this, God has blessed you in eternity.

Isaiah 51:2

Pay attention to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you. For I called him alone, and I blessed him, and I multiplied him.

Isaiah 63:9

Throughout all their tribulation, he was not troubled, for the Angel of his presence saved them. With his love, and by his leniency, he has redeemed them, and he has carried them and lifted them up, throughout all the days of the ages.

Ezekiel 20:5

And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: In the day when I chose Israel, and I lifted up my hand on behalf of the stock of the house of Jacob, and I appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and I lifted up my hand on their behalf, saying, 'I am the Lord your God,'

Ezekiel 36:22

For this reason, you shall say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will act, not for your sake, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have defiled among the Gentiles, to whom you entered.

Matthew 7:14

How narrow is the gate, and how straight is the way, which leads to life, and few there are who find it!

Luke 12:32

Do not be afraid, little flock; for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.

Romans 11:6

And if it is by grace, then it is not now by works; otherwise grace is no longer free.

Romans 9:18

Therefore, he takes pity on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

Romans 9:21

And does not the potter have the authority over the clay to make, from the same material, indeed, one vessel unto honor, yet truly another unto disgrace?

Deuteronomy 1:10

'I alone am not able to sustain you. For the Lord, your God, has multiplied you, and you are today like the stars of heaven, very many.

Deuteronomy 10:22

As seventy souls, your fathers descended into Egypt. And now, behold, the Lord your God has multiplied you to be like the stars of heaven."

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people, for the Lord your God. And he chose you, so that you may be a people particularly his, out of all the nations on earth.

Deuteronomy 4:37

For he loved your fathers, and he chose their offspring after them. And he led you away from Egypt, advancing before you with his great power,

1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.

1 John 4:10

In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.