ROM. IX, 10. Or saith he altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thrasheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. 11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap you carnal things? 12. If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the Gospel of Christ. 13. Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? DEUT. IV, 37. And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt. DEUT. VII, 6. For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 8. But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. DEUT. X, 15. Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 1 KINGS III, 8. And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that can not be numbered nor counted for multitude. 1 CHRON. XVI, 13. O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 14. He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. PSALM CV, 6. O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen. 7. He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. PSALM XXXIII, 12. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. NEH. IX, 7. Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; 8. And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous. ACTS XIII, 17. The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought he them out of it. ISAIAH LIV, 4. Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.