he loved

Deuteronomy 7:7, 8
The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. . . .

Exodus 19:5, 6
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations--for the whole earth is Mine. . . .

Psalm 47:4
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah

Psalm 147:19, 20
He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel. . . .

Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD appeared to him from afar: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

Malachi 1:2
"I have loved you, " says the LORD. But you ask, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved,

Romans 9:11-13
Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's plan of election might stand, . . .

Ephesians 2:4, 5
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, . . .

1 John 4:19
We love because He first loved us.

all his saints

Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy unto the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be as a people for His prized possession, above all peoples on the face of the earth.

1 Samuel 2:9
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

Psalm 31:15
My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.

Psalm 50:5
"Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice."

Jeremiah 32:40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will never turn away from Me.

John 10:28, 29
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. . . .

John 17:11-15
I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one. . . .

Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? . . .

Colossians 3:3, 4
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. . . .

1 Peter 1:5
who through faith are protected by God's power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

they sat

Luke 2:46
Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Luke 8:35
So the people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man whom the demons had left, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

Luke 10:39
She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet, listening to His message.

Acts 22:3
"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the Law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.

shall receive

Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

1 Thessalonians 1:6
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.