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Deuteronomy 7:6 (NIV)

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

Deuteronomy 7:7 (NIV)

The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 7:22 (NIV)

The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.

Deuteronomy 7:23 (NIV)

But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7:24 (NIV)

He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.

Deuteronomy 7:25 (NIV)

The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:26 (NIV)

Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Deuteronomy 8:1 (NIV)

Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 8:2 (NIV)

Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

Deuteronomy 8:3 (NIV)

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord .

Deuteronomy 8:4 (NIV)

Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

Deuteronomy 8:5 (NIV)

Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

Deuteronomy 9:17 (NIV)

So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:18 (NIV)

Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord ’s sight and so arousing his anger.

Deuteronomy 9:19 (NIV)

I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord , for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me.

Deuteronomy 9:20 (NIV)

And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too.

Deuteronomy 9:21 (NIV)

Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:22 (NIV)

You also made the Lord angry at Taberah, at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah.

Deuteronomy 9:23 (NIV)

And when the Lord sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, he said, “Go up and take possession of the land I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust him or obey him.

Deuteronomy 9:24 (NIV)

You have been rebellious against the Lord ever since I have known you.

Deuteronomy 9:25 (NIV)

I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:26 (NIV)

I prayed to the Lord and said, “Sovereign Lord , do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 9:27 (NIV)

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin.

Deuteronomy 9:28 (NIV)

Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’