Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

  • KJV King James Version

    Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Since thou art precious in My sight, and honourable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men for thee, and peoples for thy life.

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Cross-references (21)

Passages linked to Isaiah 43:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 7:6-8 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples; but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • 1 Peter 2:9 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.
  • Jeremiah 31:3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
  • Revelation 3:9 Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
  • Genesis 12:2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
  • Hosea 11:1 “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
  • John 16:27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
  • Deuteronomy 32:9-14 For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers. Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
  • John 17:23 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.
  • Exodus 19:5-6 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
  • Deuteronomy 14:2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
  • Deuteronomy 26:18 Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
  • Psalms 135:4 For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession.
  • Malachi 1:2 “I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
  • Psalms 112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
  • Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
  • Malachi 3:17 They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
  • John 5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
  • John 17:26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
  • Titus 2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • 1 Peter 1:7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

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Explain this verse (12 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain I will not spare any man, rather than thou…

I will not spare any man, rather than thou shouldest perish, for God more esteemeth one of his faithful than all the wicked in the world.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Since thou wast precious in my sight,.... As the…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Since - From the time that I chose thee…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Since thou wast precious in my sight - This…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Eyes, by a gratuitous choice. --- Men. Chaldeans, &c.
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Since--All along from the beginning; for there was never…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. Since thou wast … thou hast been …]…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Since thou wast precious. "Since" probably means "from the…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Since thou wast precious in My sight
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain Isa_43:4. Since thou wast precious, &c.
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