For the LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his people.

But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.

Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget you.

And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? how he makes intercession to God against Israel, saying,

Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.

They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.

What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,