Deuteronomy 7:7 - American Standard Version (1901) Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples: 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord did not set His love upon you and choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the fewest of all people. Common English Bible It was not because you were greater than all other people that the LORD loved you and chose you. In fact, you were the smallest of peoples! Catholic Public Domain Version It is not because you surpass all the nations in number that the Lord has joined with you and has chosen you, for you are the least numerous of any people. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Not because you surpass all nations in number is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you: for you are the fewest of any people: English Standard Version 2016 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, |
Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us, But unto thy name give glory, For thy lovingkindness, and for thy truth’s sake.
For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, Because thou wast favorable unto them.
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when I chose Israel, and sware unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I sware unto them, saying, I am Jehovah your God;
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I do not this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, whither ye went.
For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.