1 Samuel 12:22

²For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

⁷The LORD 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; ⁸but because the LORD loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, the LORD 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.

⁸Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

⁶being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

¹³I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”

²⁹For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

²¹Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.

¹⁴For the LORD won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

⁹For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

¹⁴But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.