John 15:16
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.
Ephesians 1:4
as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him,
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all wickedness, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;