John 10:27-29
"My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me.
John 12:26
If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor.
John 17:11
I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.
Romans 9:18
So then he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will, he hardens.
Romans 9:23-24
And what if he thus purposed to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory?
Romans 15:12-13
Or again, as Isaiah says. There shall be the root of Jesse, And he that arises to rule over the Gentiles; On him shall the Gentiles hope.
Ephesians 1:12-13
that we who first hoped in Christ should be for the praise of his glory.
1 Peter 5:3-5
not by way of lording it over your heritage, but by becoming examples to the flock.