But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.