Isaiah 41:8

New American Bible - revised edition

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend—

Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:13

You sons of Israel, his servants, offspring of Jacob, the chosen ones!

2 Chronicles 20:7

Was it not you, our God, who dispossessed the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend?

Psalm 105:6

You descendants of Abraham his servant, offspring of Jacob the chosen one!

Psalm 135:4

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his treasured possession.

Psalm 136:21

And made their lands a heritage, for his mercy endures forever;

Psalm 136:22

A heritage for Israel, his servant, for his mercy endures forever.

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people chosen as his inheritance.

Isaiah 14:1

But the Lord will take pity on Jacob and again choose Israel, and will settle them on their own land; foreigners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 29:22

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of the house of Jacob, who redeemed Abraham: No longer shall Jacob be ashamed, no longer shall his face grow pale.

Isaiah 42:1

Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased. Upon him I have put my spirit; he shall bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 42:19

Who is blind but my servant, or deaf like the messenger I send? Who is blind like the one I restore, blind like the servant of the Lord?

Isaiah 43:1

But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, Jacob, and formed you, Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name: you are mine.

Isaiah 43:10

You are my witnesses—oracle of the Lord— my servant whom I have chosen To know and believe in me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, and after me there shall be none.

Isaiah 43:5

Fear not, for I am with you; from the east I will bring back your offspring, from the west I will gather you.

Isaiah 44:21

Remember these things, Jacob, Israel, for you are my servant! I formed you, a servant to me; Israel, you shall never be forgotten by me:

Isaiah 45:4

For the sake of Jacob, my servant, of Israel my chosen one, I have called you by name, giving you a title, though you do not know me.

Isaiah 48:12

Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I called! I, it is I who am the first, and am I the last.

Isaiah 49:3

He said to me, You are my servant, in you, Israel, I show my glory.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth; Though he was but one when I called him, I blessed him and made him many.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father. Were Abraham not to know us, nor Israel to acknowledge us, You, Lord, are our father, our redeemer you are named from of old.

Jeremiah 33:24

Have you not noticed what these people are saying: “The Lord has rejected the two tribes he had chosen”? They hold my people in contempt as if it were no longer a nation in their eyes.

Leviticus 25:42

Since they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they shall not sell themselves as slaves are sold.

Malachi 1:2

I love you, says the Lord; but you say, “How do you love us?”

Matthew 3:9

And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

Galatians 3:19

Why, then, the law? It was added for transgressions, until the descendant came to whom the promise had been made; it was promulgated by angels at the hand of a mediator.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet only on your ancestors did the Lord set his heart to love them. He chose you, their descendants, from all the peoples, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own. Clean and Unclean Animals.

James 2:23

Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called “the friend of God.”