12 Bible Verses about Choices
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And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac??11 for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,??12 it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger; as it is written; Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means.read more.
For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to him to whom I may be merciful, and I will compassionate him whom I may compassionate.
but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty, and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,
Hear, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him,
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose. For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers; and whom he predestinated them he also called; and whom he called them he also justified; and whom he justified them he also glorified.read more.
What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies;
But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;
AND he went up on the mountain, and called whom he would; and they went to him. And he appointed twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them out to preach, and have power to cast out demons.read more.
And he gave to Simon the name of Peter. [He appointed him], and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James??nd he gave them the names of Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder??18 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 they came into a house,
And when it was day he called his disciples; and having chosen twelve of them, whom he 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 Zealot,read more.
Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor,
And there was a certain disciple at Damascus by the name of Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. And the Lord said to him, Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for [a man] by the name of Saul of Tarsus; for behold, he prays, and has seen a man by the name of Ananias coming and putting a hand on him, that he might receive his sight.read more.
And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem; and here he has power from the chief priests to bind all that call on your name. But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name both before nations and kings, and the children of Israel;
But when God who gave me being and called me by 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 will do his will, he shall know of the teaching whether it is from God or whether I speak from myself.
Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.