John 6:44-45
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.
Romans 11:28-29
From the point of view of the good news they are treated as enemies of God on your account; but from the point of view of God's choice, they are dear to him because of their forefathers,
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God is so rich in mercy that because of the great love he had for us,
Titus 3:3-6
For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born anew to a life of hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead,
1 John 4:19
We love because he loved us first.
Romans 8:30
and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies.
Romans 9:13
As the Scripture says, "I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau."
Ephesians 1:3-5
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
2 Thessalonians 2:13-16
We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,
2 Timothy 1:9
He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,
James 1:18
Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.