Romans 11:2
God has not repudiated his people, which he had marked out from the first. Do you not know what the Scripture says in speaking of Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel?
1 Peter 1:2
whom God the Father has chosen and predestined by the consecration of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ, and to be sprinkled with his blood; God bless you and give you perfect peace.
Luke 4:1
Jesus returned from the Jordan full of the holy Spirit, and he was led about in the desert
John 4:1-3
So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.
John 4:11
She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?
Acts 3:17
Yet I know, brothers, that you did not know what you were doing, any more than your leaders did;
Acts 7:40
for they said to Aaron, 'Make us gods to march in front of us, for as for this Moses, who brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!'
Acts 13:48
When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,
Acts 15:18
who has been making this known from of old.'
Romans 8:29-30
For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;
Romans 9:6
Not that God's message has failed. For not everybody who is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,
Romans 9:23
so as to show all the wealth of his glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he has prepared from the beginning to share his glory,
1 Corinthians 6:2
Do you not know that the Christians are to be the judges of the world? And if the world is to come before you for judgment, are you unfit to decide the most trivial cases?
Philippians 1:22
But if living on here means having my labor bear fruit, I cannot tell which to choose.
Hebrews 1:1
It was little by little and in different ways that God spoke in old times to our forefathers through the prophets,