³ For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father; ⁴ knowing as we do, brethren, that you are beloved by God and that He has chosen you. ⁵ The Good News that we brought you did not come to you in words only, but also with power and with the Holy Spirit and with much certainty, for you know the sort of men we became among you, as examples for your sakes.

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Chosen of God

O God

Cross References

2 Thessalonians 2:13

And from us thanks are always due to God on your behalf--brethren whom the Lord loves--because God from the beginning has chosen you for salvation through the Spirit's sanctifying influence and your belief in the truth.

2 Peter 1:10

For this reason, brethren, be all the more in earnest to make sure that God has called you and chosen you; for it is certain that so long as you practise these things, you will never stumble.

Romans 1:7

To all God's loved ones who are in Rome, called to be saints. May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:28-30

Now we know that for those who love God all things are working together for good--for those, I mean, whom with deliberate purpose He has called.

Romans 9:25

So also in Hosea He says, "I will call that nation My People which was not My People, and I will call her beloved who was not beloved.

Romans 11:5-7

In the same way also at the present time there has come to be a remnant whom God in His grace has selected.

Ephesians 1:4

even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without blemish in His presence.

Ephesians 2:4-5

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,

Philippians 1:6-7

For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3:12

Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own people holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

1 Thessalonians 1:3

For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father;

2 Timothy 1:9-10

For He saved us and called us with a holy call, not in accordance with our desserts, but in accordance with His own purpose and the free grace which He bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before the commencement of the Ages,

Titus 3:4-5

But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, dawned upon us, not in consequence of things which we,

1 Peter 1:2

chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, with a view to their obedience and to their being sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May more and more grace and peace be granted to you.

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