Quotes about People
The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
— Deuteronomy 7:7
Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
— Deuteronomy 9:6
The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
— Deuteronomy 9:13
But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”
— Deuteronomy 9:29
for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
— Deuteronomy 14:2
And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
— Deuteronomy 26:18
that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
— Deuteronomy 26:19
On that day Moses commanded the people:
— Deuteronomy 27:11
‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:18
Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
— Deuteronomy 32:6
But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
— Deuteronomy 32:9
They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
— Deuteronomy 32:21