Deu 7:7-8, 9:5-6, Mat 20:10 | ESV | STEP | 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 ,

Deuteronomy 7:7-8

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 ^ait is because the Lord loves you and is keeping ^bthe 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 9:5-6

5 ^cNot because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm ^dthe word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

6 “Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are ^ea stubborn people.

Matthew 20:10

10 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius.