Deuteronomy 7:6-8

6“For ayou are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be ba people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7It 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, 8but cit is because the Lord loves you and is keeping dthe oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:15

15Yet ethe Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.

Deuteronomy 32:8-14

8When the Most High fgave to the nations their inheritance,
when he gdivided mankind,
he fixed the borders
Or territories
of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.
Compare Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text sons of Israel

9But the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.
10 “He found him jin a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he kencircled him, he cared for him,
he lkept him as the apple of his eye.
11 mLike an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
12 nthe Lord alone guided him,
ono foreign god was with him.
13 pHe made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with qhoney out of the rock,
and roil out of sthe flinty rock.
14Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat
That is,  with the best
of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
with the very finest
Hebrew  with the kidney fat
of the wheat
and you drank foaming wine made from vthe blood of the grape.

Isaiah 41:8-9

8 But you, Israel, wmy servant,
Jacob, xwhom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, ymy friend;
9you whom I took from the ends of the earth,
and called zfrom its farthest corners,
saying to you, “You are aamy servant,
abI have chosen you and not cast you off”;

Isaiah 43:4

4Because 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

3the Lord appeared to him
Septuagint; Hebrew me
from far away.
adI have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore aeI have continued afmy faithfulness to you.

Romans 11:28-29

28As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are agbeloved for the sake of their forefathers. 29For the gifts and ahthe calling of God are irrevocable.
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