Deu 7:6-8, 33:3, Hos 14:4, Mal 1:2, Eph 2:4-5, 1Jo 4:9-10 | ESV | STEP | For you are a people holy to the Lord your God . The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession , out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth .

y[See ver. 9 above]

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. 7 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, 8 but ^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 33:3

3 Yes, ^ehe loved his people, ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew peoples}
^gall his holy ones were in his ^{▼▼Hebrew your} hand;
ⁱso they followed ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain} in your steps,
receiving direction from you,

Hosea 14:4

4 I ^kwill heal their apostasy;
^lI will love them freely,
for my anger has turned from them.

Malachi 1:2

The Lord’s Love for Israel

2 ^m“I have loved you,” says the Lord. ⁿBut you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau ^oJacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet ^pI have loved Jacob

Ephesians 2:4-5

4 But ^{▼▼Or And} God, being ^rrich in mercy, ^sbecause of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even ^twhen we were dead in our trespasses, ^umade us alive together with Christ— ^vby grace you have been saved—

1 John 4:9-10

9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that ^wGod sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, ^xnot that we have loved God ^ybut that he loved us and sent his Son to be ^zthe propitiation for our sins.