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Deuteronomy 7:7-8
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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Romans 8:31
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
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2 Corinthians 4 17
For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison
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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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Romans 11:28
In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.
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Numbers 23:5-12
Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said,“ Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”So he returned to him, and he was still standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying,“ Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,‘ Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the LORD has not denounced?For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let the end of my life be like theirs.”Then Balak said to Balaam,“ What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!”Balaam replied,“ Must I not be careful to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?”
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Numbers 24:9
They crouch and lie down like a lion, and as a lioness, who can stir him? Blessed is the one who blesses you, and cursed is the one who curses you!’”
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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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Proverbs 26:2
Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.
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Psalms 73:1
Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!
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Numbers 22:35
But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam,“ Go with the men, but you may only speak the word that I will speak to you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
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Numbers 23:16-26
Then the LORD met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said,“ Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”When Balaam came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him,“ What has the LORD spoken?”Balaam uttered his oracle, and said,“ Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?Indeed, I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.He has not looked on iniquity in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them; his acclamation as king is among them.God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a wild bull.For there is no spell against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. At this time it must be said of Jacob and of Israel,‘ Look at what God has done!’Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”Balak said to Balaam,“ Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”But Balaam replied to Balak,“ Did I not tell you,‘ All that the LORD speaks, I must do’?”
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Deuteronomy 33:3
Surely he loves the people; all your holy ones are in your power. And they sit at your feet, each receiving your words.
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Micah 6:5
My people, recall how King Balak of Moab planned to harm you, how Balaam son of Beor responded to him. Recall how you journeyed from Shittim to Gilgal, so you might acknowledge that the LORD has treated you fairly.”
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Ezekiel 16:8
“‘ Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign LORD, and you became mine.
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Romans 9:13
just as it is written:“ Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
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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
