Isaiah 41:8

God Helps Israel

⁷ The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and the hammersmith encourages the one who strikes the anvil. He says about the welding, "It's good!' and he reinforces it with nails so that it won't topple." ⁸ "But as for you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I've chosen, the offspring of my friend Abraham ⁹ you whom I encouraged from the ends of the earth and called from its farthest corners, and told you, "You're my servant, I've chosen you and haven't cast you aside.'

Abraham My Friend

Seed of Abraham

Chosen One

Descendants Of Abraham

Abraham

Israel

Jacob

2 Chronicles 20:7

"LORD God of our ancestors, you are the God who lives in heaven, are you not? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, don't you? In your own hands you grasp both strength and power, don't you? As a result, no one can oppose you, can they? You are our God, who expelled the former inhabitants of this land right in front of our people Israel, aren't you? Then you gave it to your friend Abraham's descendant forever, didn't you?

James 2:23

And so the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." And so he was called God's friend.

Isaiah 44:1-2

"But now listen, Jacob my servant and Israel whom I have chosen:

Deuteronomy 10:15

yet the LORD committed himself to love your ancestors and did so! He chose you their descendants after them from all the nations, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 14:2

because you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD chose to make you his precious possession from among all the nations of the earth."

Psalm 135:4

It is Jacob whom the LORD chose for himself Israel as his personal possession.

Isaiah 44:21

"Remember these things, Jacob, Israel, for you are my servant. I have formed you; you are a servant to me. Israel, you must not mislead me.

Exodus 19:5-6

And now if you carefully obey me and keep my covenant, you are to be my special possession out of all the nations, because the whole earth belongs to me,

Leviticus 25:42

Since they're my servants whom I've brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

because you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God chose you to be his people, his treasured possession from all the nations on the face of the earth."

Psalm 33:12

How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen as his own inheritance.

Psalm 105:6

You descendants of Abraham, his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Psalm 105:42-45

Indeed, he remembered his sacred promise to his servant Abraham.

Isaiah 29:22

"Therefore, this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: "No longer will Jacob be ashamed; no longer will his face grow pale.

Isaiah 43:1

But now this is what the LORD says, the one who created you, Jacob, the one who formed you, Israel: "Do not be afraid, because I've redeemed you. I've called you by name; you are mine.

Isaiah 48:12

"Listen to these things, Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called. I am the One: I am the first, I am even the last.

Isaiah 49:3

He said to me: "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will glorify myself.'

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. For when he was only one person I called him, but I made him fruitful and made him many.

Isaiah 63:16

But you are our Father, even Abraham does not know us and Israel has not acknowledged us; you are he, O LORD, our Father, from long ago, "Our Redeemer' is your name.

Jeremiah 33:24

"Haven't you noticed what these people have been saying? "The LORD rejected the two families that he had chosen!' They have contempt for my people and no longer consider them a nation.

Matthew 3:9

Don't think you can say to yourselves, "We have father Abraham!' because I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!

John 8:33-44

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

John 15:14-15

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

Romans 4:12-13

He is also the ancestor of the circumcised those who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Romans 9:4-8

who are Israelis. To them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the worship, and the promises.

Galatians 3:19

Why, then, was the Law added? Because of transgressions, until the descendant came about whom the promise pertained. It was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.

Galatians 4:22-31

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