ELECTION

Passages on this topic · 14

• Deuteronomy 7:6

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

• Nehemiah 11:1

  The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.

• Isaiah 42:1

  “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights — I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

• Isaiah 45:4

  For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.

• Luke 6:13

  When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

• John 15:16

  You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

• John 17:6

  I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

• Acts 9:15

  But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

• Ephesians 1:4

  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

• Ephesians 2:10

  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:13

  But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;

• 1 Timothy 5:21

  I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

• 1 Peter 2:6

  Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

• 1 Peter 5:13

  She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you; and so does Mark, my son.