Deuteronomy 32:6

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people you have purchased pass over.

Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: