Ezekiel 16:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“When I passed by you again and looked upon you, behold, you were at the age for love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I plighted my troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

Cross References

Genesis 22:16

and said, “By myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Exodus 15:16

Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of thy arm, they are as still as a stone, till thy people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom thou hast purchased.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thine own self, and didst say to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.’ ”

Isaiah 43:1

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

Isaiah 43:4

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

Jeremiah 31:3

the Lord appeared to him from afar. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Jeremiah 31:32

not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:6

“And when I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live,

Hosea 11:1

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

Hosea 2:15

And there I will give her her vineyards, and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Hosea 2:7

She shall pursue her lovers, but not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.’

Malachi 1:2

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How hast thou loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob's brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob

Romans 5:8

But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Deuteronomy 4:31

for the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to them.

Ruth 3:9

He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your maidservant; spread your skirt over your maidservant, for you are next of kin.”

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.