Deuteronomy 7:8
8 but qit is because the Lord loves you and is keeping rthe oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Jeremiah 31:3
3 the Lord appeared to him1 from far away.
cI have loved you with an everlasting love;
