he was a burning and a shining lamp, and you chose to rejoice for a while in his light.

At festival time the governor was in the habit of releasing any one prisoner whom the crowd chose.

This plan commended itself to the whole body, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nikanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nikolaos a proselyte from Antioch;

The God of this People Israel chose our fathers; he multiplied the people as they sojourned in the land of Egypt and with arm uplifted led them out of it.

They chose presbyters for them in every church, and with prayer and fasting entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

They know me of old. They know, if they chose to admit it, that as a Pharisee I lived by the principles of the strictest party in our religion.

Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him.

who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration ??not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus

and when he chose to reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him to the Gentiles, instead of consulting with any human being,

He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,