Is thine eye evil because I am good? Thus the last shall be first, and the first last; for there are many called, but few chosen.

Friend, how camest thou in here without a wedding-garment? and he was struck speechless.

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

All that the Father giveth me, will come unto me; and him that cometh to me I will not cast out.

And this is the will of Him that sent me, that every one who looketh attentively at the Son, and so believeth on Him, may have eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

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

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

I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen: but have done it that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heel against me.

Ye did not first choose me, but I chose you, and have appointed you to go forth, and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be lasting: that whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, He may give it you.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for Thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

Him hath God exalted with his right hand as a prince and saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins:

But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way, for he is the instrument I have chosen, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

And when the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were determined for eternal life believed.

And he said, The God of our Fathers hath before appointed thee to know his will, and to see the just One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

And we know that all things co-operate for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose; for those whom he foreknew, He also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that He might be as the first-born among many brethren: and whom He before ordained, these He also called;

for those whom he foreknew, He also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that He might be as the first-born among many brethren: and whom He before ordained, these He also called; and whom He called, these he also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

(when the children were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger: as it is written, read more. "I loved Jacob and I hated Esau."

So then He hath mercy on whom He pleaseth, and whom He will, He hardeneth.

and that He might make known the riches of his glory in the vessels of mercy, which He hath prepared for glory?

And so in the present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, it is no more of works: for then grace is no longer grace. But if of works, it is no more grace: for then work is no longer work.

But when it pleased God, (who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,)

according as he hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unblameable before Him in love: having before appointed us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will;

having before appointed us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will;

For by grace ye are saved, through faith: and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not by works, that no one may boast:

created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God before prepared us, that we might walk in them.

And I entreat thee likewise, my faithful collegue, to assist them, for they laboured with me in the gospel, and Clement also, and my other fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God.

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord; because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth:

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

who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose, and grace bestowed upon us through Christ Jesus, before the world was,

No one, that enters into military service, embarrasseth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him.

not answering frowardly, not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

and from Jesus Christ, who is 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 in his own blood,