Verse 7

`Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye `are' the least of all the peoples,

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 10:22 : 22 with seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt, and now hath Jehovah thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude.
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;
  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.
  • Ps 115:1 : 1 Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, But to Thy name give honour, For Thy kindness, for Thy truth.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah -- she bringeth you forth, For -- one -- I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.
  • Matt 7:14 : 14 how strait `is' the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!
  • Luke 12:32 : 32 `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;
  • Rom 9:11-15 : 11 (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her -- 12 `The greater shall serve the less;' 13 according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.' 14 What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness `is' with God? let it not be! 15 for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.
  • Rom 9:21 : 21 hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?
  • Rom 9:27-29 : 27 And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved; 28 for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land. 29 and according as Isaiah saith before, `Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'