of old.

Deuteronomy 7:7-9
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. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:15
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

Deuteronomy 33:3, 26
Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words-- . . .

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 9:13
So it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

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

an.

Psalm 103:17
But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children's children--

Isaiah 45:17
But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.

Isaiah 54:8, 9
In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you, " says the LORD your Redeemer. . . .

Romans 11:28, 29
Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs. . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:13-16
But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth. . . .

2 Timothy 1:9
He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our own works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time eternal.

with loving-kindness have I drawn.

Song of Solomon 1:4
Take me away with you--let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. The Friends We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love above wine. It is only right that they adore you.

Hosea 11:4
I led with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.

John 6:44, 45
"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. . . .

Romans 8:30
And those He predestined He also called, those He called He also justified, those He justified He also glorified.

Ephesians 1:3-5
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. . . .

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

Titus 3:3-6
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. . . .

James 1:18
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,