Deuteronomy 7:7

Good News Translation

“The Lord did not love you and choose you because you outnumbered other peoples; you were the smallest nation on earth.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:19

God's people were few in number, strangers in the land of Canaan.

Psalm 105:12

God's people were few in number, strangers in the land of Canaan.

Psalm 115:1

To you alone, O Lord, to you alone, and not to us, must glory be given because of your constant love and faithfulness.

Psalm 44:3

Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance of your presence, which showed that you loved them.

Isaiah 51:2

Think of your ancestor, Abraham, and of Sarah, from whom you are descended. When I called Abraham, he was childless, but I blessed him and gave him children; I made his descendants numerous.

Isaiah 63:9

from all their suffering. It was not an angel, but the Lord himself who saved them. In his love and compassion he rescued them. He had always taken care of them in the past,

Ezekiel 20:5

Tell them what I am saying. When I chose Israel, I made them a promise. I revealed myself to them in Egypt and told them: I am the Lord your God.

Ezekiel 36:22

“Now then, give the Israelites the message that I, the Sovereign Lord, have for them: What I am going to do is not for the sake of you Israelites, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have disgraced in every country where you have gone.

Matthew 7:14

But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find it.

Luke 12:32

“Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the Kingdom.

Romans 11:6

His choice is based on his grace, not on what they have done. For if God's choice were based on what people do, then his grace would not be real grace.

Romans 9:18

So then, God has mercy on anyone he wishes, and he makes stubborn anyone he wishes.

Romans 9:21

After all, the man who makes the pots has the right to use the clay as he wishes, and to make two pots from the same lump of clay, one for special occasions and the other for ordinary use.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 14:2

You belong to the Lord your God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth.

Deuteronomy 4:37

Because he loved your ancestors, he chose you, and by his great power he himself brought you out of Egypt.

1 John 3:1

See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children—and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God.

1 John 4:10

This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.