Isaiah 43:4 Cross References

Isaiah 43:4

4: Others died that you might live. I traded their lives for yours because you are precious to me. You are honored, and I love you.

Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to me.
And you will be to me a kingdom of priests, my holy nation.' Give this message to the Israelites."

For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
"The LORD did not choose you and lavish his love on you because you were larger or greater than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations!
It was simply because the LORD loves you, and because he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the LORD rescued you with such amazing power from your slavery under Pharaoh in Egypt.

For the people of Israel belong to the LORD; Jacob is his special possession.
"He found them in a desert land, in an empty, howling wasteland. He surrounded them and watched over them; he guarded them as his most precious possession.
Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he spread his wings to take them in and carried them aloft on his pinions.
The LORD alone guided them; they lived without any foreign gods.
He made them ride over the highlands; he let them feast on the crops of the fields. He nourished them with honey from the cliffs, with olive oil from the hard rock.

Look! I will force those who belong to Satan--those liars who say they are Jews but are not--to come and bow down at your feet. They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love.

I will cause you to become the father of a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and I will make you a blessing to others.

But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are a kingdom of priests, God's holy nation, his very own possession. This is so you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

These trials are only to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold--and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. So if your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

for the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe that I came from God.

Long ago the LORD said to Israel: "I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.

I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one. Then the world will know that you sent me and will understand that you love them as much as you love me.

"When Israel was a child, I loved him as a son, and I called my son out of Egypt.

"I have loved you deeply," says the LORD. But you retort, "Really? How have you loved us?" And the LORD replies, "I showed my love for you by loving your ancestor Jacob. Yet Esau was Jacob's brother,

In all their suffering he also suffered, and he personally rescued them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them. He lifted them up and carried them through all the years.

They give generously to those in need. Their good deeds will never be forgotten. They will have influence and honor.

You have been set apart as holy to the LORD your God, and he has chosen you to be his own special treasure from all the nations of the earth.

No wonder you can't believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don't care about the honor that comes from God alone.

And I have revealed you to them and will keep on revealing you. I will do this so that your love for me may be in them and I in them."

"They will be my people," says the LORD Almighty. "On the day when I act, they will be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient and dutiful child.

The LORD has declared today that you are his people, his own special treasure, just as he promised, and that you must obey all his commands.

He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing what is right.

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