Romans 11:28-29

Though they are violently prejudiced against the gospel upon your account: yet they are objects of favour upon the account of their having been chosen out of respect to your fore-fathers.

Ephesians 1:4

according as he had chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, free from vice, and devoted to virtue.

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Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

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Romans 11:28
Though they are violently prejudiced against the gospel upon your account: yet they are objects of favour upon the account of their having been chosen out of respect to your fore-fathers.
Ephesians 1:4
according as he had chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, free from vice, and devoted to virtue.