So the last shall be first, and the first last.

and said to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

but in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

Every thing which the Father gives to me shall come to me, and him that comes to me I will by no means cast out;

For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me shall draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

He answered them, Have I not chosen you twelve? and of you one is a devil.

I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.

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.

If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Father, what thou hast given me, I will that they should be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me; because thou didst love me before the foundation of the world;

him has God exalted, a Prince and Saviour at his right hand, to give a change of mind to Israel and the forgiveness of sins.

But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name both before nations and kings, and the children of Israel;

And the gentiles hearing this rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed;

And he said, The God of our fathers chose you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and hear the voice of his mouth,

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose. For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers; and whom he predestinated them he also called; and whom he called them he also justified; and whom he justified them he also glorified.

as it is written; Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

He therefore has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory,

So then also at the present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace; but if by grace, no longer by works; for otherwise grace is no longer grace; but if by works, it is no longer grace; for otherwise a work is no longer a work.

But when God who gave me being and called me by his grace,

as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him, having predestinated us in love to an adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

having predestinated us in love to an adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

For by grace are you saved through the faith; and that not of you; [it is] the gift of God;

for we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, in which God before appointed that we should walk.

Yes, I beseech you also, faithful yoke-fellow, help those women who strove in the gospel with me, with Clement and the rest of my co-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election,

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation by purification of spirit, and belief of the truth,

For to this end we also labor and suffer reproach, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace given us in Christ Jesus from eternity,

No one who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he may please him who has employed him as a soldier.

not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Saviour God in all things.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his blood,