Ezekiel 36:22
36:22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation which you profaned among the nations where you went.
Deuteronomy 9:5
9:5 It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness,
that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the
Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he
made on oath to your ancestors,
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Daniel 9:18-19
9:18 Listen attentively,
my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins
and the city called by your name.
For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you,
but because your compassion is abundant.
9:19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.”
Daniel 9:2
9:2 in the first year of his reign
I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books
that, according to the word of the
LORD disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem
were seventy in number.
Daniel 1:9
1:9 Then God made the overseer of the court officials sympathetic to Daniel.
Titus 3:3-6
3:3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
3:4 But “when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,
3:5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
3:6 whom he poured out on us in full measure
through Jesus Christ our Savior.