20 Bible Verses about Chosen Disciples

And when it was day he called his disciples; and having chosen twelve of them, whom he named apostles,

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should continue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.

He answered them, Have I not chosen you twelve? and of you one is a devil.

And praying, they said, Do thou, Lord, the searcher of all hearts, show which of these two thou hast chosen

till the day that having given charge to the apostles whom he chose by the Holy Spirit he was taken up;

Salute Rufus the elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

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;

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

knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election,

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation by purification of spirit, and belief of the truth,

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?

Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.

They shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall conquer them,??or he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.

And after there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, Men and brothers, you know that in former days God chose among you that the gentiles should hear by my mouth the word of the gospel and believe.

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,

So then also at the present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace;

PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect strangers of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

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,