I speak not of you all; I know whom I chose; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, "He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his heel against me."

Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever ye ask of 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 chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

And he spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he observed how they chose out the highest places at the table, saying to them,

And what was said pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a proselyte of Antioch,

And if the Lord had not shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen whom he chose, he shortened the days.

The God of this people chose our fathers, and he exalted the people in their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it;

And Paul chose Silas and went forth, having been commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.

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

And when it was day, he called to him his disciples; and he chose from them twelve, whom he also named apostles;

"Behold my servant, whom I chose; my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will declare judgment to the nations.

Wherefore, when we could no longer forbear, we chose to be left at Athens alone,

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth;

No one serving as a soldier entangleth himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

but I chose to do nothing without thy consent, that thy benefit may be not as from necessity, but willingly.

according as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him;