21 Bible Verses about Chosen Disciples

And when day came, he summoned his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he also named apostles:

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this [reason] the world hates you.

"I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, 'The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

Jesus replied to them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is the devil?"

And they prayed [and] said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show clearly which one of these two you have chosen

until the day he was taken up, [after he] had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen,

Greet Rufus, the chosen one in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

But the Lord said to him, "Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel.

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,

knowing, brothers [dearly] loved by God, {that he has chosen you},

But we ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers [dearly] loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you [as] first fruits for salvation by the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth,

Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because [if you] do these [things], you will never ever stumble.

These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him [are] called and chosen and faithful."

for [although they] had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,

And [after] there was much debate, Peter stood up [and] said to them, "Men [and] brothers, you know that in the early days God chose among you through my mouth [that] the Gentiles should hear the message of the gospel and believe.

But the foolish [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong,

So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant {selected by grace}.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen who are residing temporarily in the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and [for] sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

and the insignificant of the world, and the despised, God chose, the things that are not, in order that he might abolish the things that are,