12 Bible Verses about Choices

Not only so; but Rebecca also having cohabitation of one, our father Isaac; for the children not having been born, neither having done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God might stand according to election not of works, but of him that calleth, and it was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger:read more.
as has been written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Then what shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? It could not be so. For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I do have mercy, and I will commiserate whom I do commiserate.

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may confound the strong; and God has chosen the base-born of the world, and those of no reputation, the things which are not, that He may set at nought the things which are,

Hear, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen the poor in the world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him with divine love?

as he elected us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless in his presence.

But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: and whom He did foreknow, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them He also glorified.read more.
Then what shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Indeed he who spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not with him, freely give us all things? Who will lay anything to the charge of God's elect?

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people unto conquest; in order that you may proclaim the virtues of the one having called you out of darkness unto his own marvelous light:

And He goes up into the mountain, and calls whom He wished: and they went away to Him. And He made twelve (apostles) that they may be with Him and that He may send them out to preach, and to have power to heal diseases, and to cast out the demons.read more.
And He placed the name Peter on Simon; and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and on them He placed the names Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder: and Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.

And when it was day, He called His disciples to Him: and having chosen twelve from them, whom He also named apostles; Simon, whom He also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John. Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon called the Zealot;read more.
and Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who also became His betrayer.

And there was a certain disciple in Damascus, Ananias by name; and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. And the Lord said to him, Arising, go to the street which is called Straight, and seek a Tarsean, by name Saul, in the house of Judas; for, behold, he is praying, and he saw a man, Ananias by name, coming in, and putting his hands on him, in order that he may look up.read more.
And Ananias responded, Lord I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to thy saints in Jerusalem: and he here has authority from the chief priests to bind all those calling on thy name. And the Lord said to him, Go: because he is a vessel of election to me, to bear my name both before the Gentiles, and kings, and sons of Israel:

When the one having separated me, from the womb of my mother, and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or I speak for myself.

O adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whosoever therefore may wish to be the friend of the world renders himself the enemy of God.