Romans 11:6
Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace.
Romans 11:20
Granted. They were broken off ??for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted.
1 Corinthians 4:4
for, although I am not conscious of having anything against me, that does not clear me. It is the Lord who cross-questions me on the matter.
1 Corinthians 4:7
Who singles you out, my brother? What do you possess that has not been given you? And if it was given you, why do you boast as if it had been gained, not given?
Ephesians 2:4-5
But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us
2 Timothy 1:9
who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration ??not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus
Titus 3:3-5
For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.