I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Isaiah 43:4 - New Revised Standard Version Because you are precious in my sight, and honored, and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because you are precious in My sight and honored, and because I love you, I will give men in return for you and peoples in exchange for your life. American Standard Version (1901) Since thou hast been precious in my sight, and honorable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy life. Common English Bible Because you are precious in my eyes, you are honored, and I love you. I give people in your place, and nations in exchange for your life. Catholic Public Domain Version Since then, you have become honorable in my eyes, and glorious. I have loved you, and I will present men on behalf of you, and people on behalf of your life. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Since thou becamest honourable in my eyes, thou art glorious. I have loved thee: and I will give men for thee, and people for thy life. |
I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
They have distributed freely, they have given to the poor; their righteousness endures forever; their horn is exalted in honor.
For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.
And now the Lord says, who formed me in the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the sight of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—
in all their distress. It was no messenger or angel but his presence that saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
I have loved you, says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” Is not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord. Yet I have loved Jacob
They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; it is you the Lord has chosen out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
Today the Lord has obtained your agreement: to be his treasured people, as he promised you, and to keep his commandments;
And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them. He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,
He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.
so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but are lying—I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.