God did not cast off his people whom he foreknew. For do you not know what is said in the Scripture about Elijah? how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

Now, brothers, I wish to tell you about the grace of God which has been manifest in the churches of Macedonia.

for it is God who, in his good-will is ever working in you both will and deed.

equip you in every good deed for the doing of his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory unto the ages of the ages! Amen!

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"yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you are to be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."

Since he is by the mighty hand of God exalted, and has received from his Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured forth this which you now see and hear.

"whilst thou stretchest forth thy hand to heal; grant too, that signs and wonders may be done through the name of thy holy Servant, Jesus."

So mightily the word of the Lord continued to grow and to prevail.

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he now lives through the power of God. I also am weak, sharing in his weakness, but I shall live with him by the power of God.

But when God who had set me apart from my very birth,

Beauties

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish in his sight.

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a people zealous of good works."

From the womb, etc

After this I looked, and behold a great multitude, whom no man could number, out of every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands;

General references

So then it is not a question of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.