Deuteronomy 7:7 Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:7
7: "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!
Deuteronomy 10:22
- When your ancestors went down into Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky!
Romans 11:6
- And if they are saved by God's kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God's wonderful kindness would not be what it really is--free and undeserved.
Romans 9:27
- Concerning Israel, Isaiah the prophet cried out, "Though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a small number will be saved.
- For the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth quickly and with finality."
- And Isaiah said in another place, "If the Lord Almighty had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah."
Romans 9:21
- When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn't he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?
Romans 9:11
- But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message proves that God chooses according to his own plan,
- not according to our good or bad works.) She was told, "The descendants of your older son will serve the descendants of your younger son."
- In the words of the Scriptures, "I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau."
- What can we say? Was God being unfair? Of course not!
- For God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose."
Psalms 115:1
- Not to us, O LORD, but to you goes all the glory for your unfailing love and faithfulness.
Romans 9:18
- So you see, God shows mercy to some just because he wants to, and he chooses to make some people refuse to listen.
1 John 3:1
- See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children, and we really are! But the people who belong to this world don't know God, so they don't understand that we are his children.
1 John 4:10
- This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
Isaiah 51:2
- Yes, think about your ancestors Abraham and Sarah, from whom you came. Abraham was alone when I called him. But when I blessed him, he became a great nation."
Luke 12:32
- "So don't be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.
Matthew 7:14
- But the gateway to life is small, and the road is narrow, and only a few ever find it.