because

Deuteronomy 4:37
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

Deuteronomy 9:4, 5
When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, "Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land." Rather, the LORD will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness. . . .

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.

1 Samuel 12:22
Indeed, for the sake of His great name the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

2 Samuel 22:20
He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

Psalm 44:3
For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory; it was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face; for You delighted in them.

Isaiah 43:4
Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.

Psalm 44:3
For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory; it was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face; for You delighted in them.

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.

Zephaniah 3:17
The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing."

Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

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

2 Thessalonians 2:13, 14
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. . . .

Titus 3:3-7
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. . . .

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

oath

Genesis 22:16-18
saying, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son, . . .

Exodus 32:13
Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.'"

Psalm 105:8-10, 42
He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations-- . . .

Luke 1:55, 72, 73
as He promised to our fathers, to Abraham and his descendants forever." . . .

Hebrews 6:13-17
When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself, . . .

Lord brought

Deuteronomy 4:20, 34
Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today. . . .

Exodus 12:41, 42
At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD's divisions went out of the land of Egypt. . . .

Exodus 13:3, 14
So Moses told the people, "Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten. . . .

Exodus 20:2
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.