Deuteronomy 7:7

New International Version

The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:19

When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,

Psalm 105:12

When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,

Psalm 105:6

you his servants, the descendants of Abraham, his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.

Psalm 44:3

It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.

Isaiah 51:2

look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one man, and I blessed him and made him many.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Ezekiel 20:5

and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore with uplifted hand to the descendants of Jacob and revealed myself to them in Egypt. With uplifted hand I said to them, “I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 36:22

“Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.

Matthew 7:14

But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Luke 12:32

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

Romans 11:6

And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

Romans 9:18

Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

Romans 9:21

Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 14:2

for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.

Deuteronomy 4:37

Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,

1 John 3:1

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 4:10

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.