Isaiah 41:8

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Summary

Isaiah 41:8

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

Thou

The seed

My friend

2 Chronicles 20:7

John 15:14

James 2:23

Bible References

Thou

But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob,
And He who formed you, O Israel,
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name; you are Mine!

“But now listen, O Jacob, My servant,
And Israel, whom I have chosen:

“Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called;

I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.

He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel,

In Whom I will show My glory.”

Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Yet on your fathers did the Lord set His affection to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

O seed of Abraham, His servant,
O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His

own possession.

“Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord chose, He has rejected them’? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight.

The seed

and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You will become free’?”

and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised.

who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises,

Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman.

My friend

Did You not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.