nSee Matt. 20:28
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
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 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.Psalms 78:38
38Yet he, being ccompassionate,datoned for their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
and did not stir up all his wrath.
Psalms 106:7-10
7Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,did not consider your wondrous works;
they edid not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
but frebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
8Yet he saved them gfor his name’s sake,
hthat he might make known his mighty power.
9He irebuked the Red Sea, and it jbecame dry,
and he kled them through the deep as through a desert.
10So he lsaved them from the hand of the foe
and mredeemed them from the power of the enemy.
Titus 2:14
14 nwho gave himself for us to oredeem us from all lawlessness and pto purify for himself qa people for his own possession who are rzealous for good works.1 John 4:9-10
9In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that sGod sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10In this is love, tnot that we have loved God ubut that he loved us and sent his Son to be vthe propitiation for our sins.Revelation of John 1:5
5and from Jesus Christ wthe faithful witness, xthe firstborn of the dead, and ythe ruler of kings on earth.To zhim who loves us and aahas freed us from our sins by his blood
Revelation of John 5:9
9And they sang aba new song, saying,“Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for acyou were slain, and by your blood adyou ransomed people for God
from aeevery tribe and language and people and nation,
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