Psalms 90:16
90:16 May your servants see your work!
May their sons see your majesty!
Exodus 20:6
20:6 and showing covenant faithfulness
to a thousand generations
of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 10:15
10:15 However, only to your ancestors did he
show his loving favor,
and he chose you, their descendants,
from all peoples – as is apparent today.
Isaiah 41:8
The Lord Encourages His People
41:8 “You, my servant Israel,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
offspring of Abraham my friend,
Jeremiah 33:24-26
33:24 “You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying,
‘The
Lord has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah
that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation.
33:25 But I, the
Lord, make the following promise:
I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth.
33:26 Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David’s descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed,
I will restore them
and show mercy to them.”
Acts 13:32-34
13:32 And we proclaim to you the good news about the promise to our ancestors,
13:33 that this promise
God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising
Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘
You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’
13:34 But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus
from the dead, never
again to be
in a state of decay, God
has spoken in this way: ‘
I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’
Romans 15:8
15:8 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised
on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,