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Luke 10:39
She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said.
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Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the LORD favored and chose you– for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the LORD brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Acts 22:3
“ I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.
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Malachi 1:2
“ I have shown love to you,” says the LORD, but you say,“ How have you shown love to us?”“ Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the LORD explains,“ yet I chose Jacob
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Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.
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1 Peter 1 5
who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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Psalms 147:19-20
He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel.He has not done so with any other nation; they are not aware of his regulations. Praise the LORD!
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Psalms 31:15
You determine my destiny! Rescue me from the power of my enemies and those who chase me.
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Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
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Colossians 3:3-4
for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.When Christ( who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.
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Luke 8:35
So the people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus. They found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.
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Romans 9:11-13
even before they were born or had done anything good or bad( so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–
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John 10:28-29
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.
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John 17:11-15
I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.
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Psalms 50:5
He says:“ Assemble my covenant people before me, those who ratified a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
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Proverbs 2:1
My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
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Romans 8:35-39
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?As it is written,“ For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Exodus 19:5-6
And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
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Luke 2:46
After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
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Psalms 47:4
He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves.( Selah)
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Jeremiah 31:3
In a far-off land the LORD will manifest himself to them. He will say to them,‘ I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.
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Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–
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1 Samuel 2 9
He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.
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Jeremiah 32:40
I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.
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1John 4:19
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1 Thessalonians 1 6
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.
