Isaiah 43:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Because you are precious in my eyes and honored, and I love you, I give people in return for you and nations in exchange for your life.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Psalm 112:9

Lavishly he gives to the poor; his righteousness shall endure forever; his horn shall be exalted in honor.

Psalm 135:4

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

Isaiah 49:5

For now the Lord has spoken who formed me as his servant from the womb, That Jacob may be brought back to him and Israel gathered to him; I am honored in the sight of the Lord, and my God is now my strength!

Isaiah 63:9

in their every affliction. It was not an envoy or a messenger, but his presence that saved them. Because of his love and pity the Lord redeemed them, Lifting them up and carrying them all the days of old.

Jeremiah 31:3

from afar the Lord appears: With age-old love I have loved you; so I have kept my mercy toward you.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son.

Malachi 1:2

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

Malachi 3:17

They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my own special possession, on the day when I take action. And I will have compassion on them, as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.

John 16:27

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God.

John 17:23

I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me.

John 17:26

I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them.”

John 5:44

How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?

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.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And today the Lord has accepted your agreement: you will be a people specially his own, as he promised you, you will keep all his commandments,

Deuteronomy 4:37

For love of your ancestors he chose their descendants after them and by his presence and great power led you out of Egypt,

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people as his own, eager to do what is good.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

Revelation 3:9

Behold, I will make those of the assembly of Satan who claim to be Jews and are not, but are lying, behold I will make them come and fall prostrate at your feet, and they will realize that I love you.