21 Bible Verses about Being Chosen

And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love: Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will,

As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love:

None can come to me, except the Father having sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

And we know that to them loving God, all things work together for good, to them being called according to the setting up.

For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,

In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:

For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren.

And whom he before determined, these he also called: and whom he called, these he also justified: and whom he justified, these he also glorified.

Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.

All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and he coming to me I will not cast out.

For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God: in thee Jehovah thy God chose to be to him a people of property from all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth.

And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These the words which thou shalt speak to the sons of Israel.

For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, having been poured out for many, for the remission of sins.

And it being when all these words shall come upon thee, the blessing, and the curse which I gave before thee, and thou shalt turn back to thy heart in all these nations where Jehovah thy God thrust thee away there, And thou turnedst back to Jehovah thy God, and heardst to his voice according to all which I command thee this day, thou and thy sons, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: And Jehovah thy God turned back thy captivity, and pitied thee, and he turned back and gathered thee from all the peoples, where Jehovah thy God scattered thee there.read more.
If thy expelling shall be to the end of the heavens, from there thy God will gather thee, and from there he will take thee: And Jehovah thy God brought thee to the land which thy fathers inherited, and thou inheritedst it: and he did good to thee and multiplied thee above thy fathers. And Jehovah thy God circumcised thy heart and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life. And Jehovah thy God gave all these curses upon thine enemies and upon those hating thee, who chased thee. And thou shalt turn back and hear to the voice of Jehovah, and do all his commands which I command thee this day.

And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

And Jesus, having answered, spake to them in parables, saying, The kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made a nuptial feast for his son. And he sent his servants to those having been called to the nuptial feast: and they would not come.read more.
And again, he sent other servants, saying, Say to the called: Behold, I have prepared my supper; my bulls and stall-fed killed, and all prepared: come to the nuptials. And they, not having heeded, departed, one truly to his own field, and one to his traffic: And the rest, having seized his servants, were insolent, and killed them. And the king, having heard, was angry, and having sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then says he to his servants, Truly the nuptial feast is prepared, and those called were not worthy. Go ye, therefore, to the passages of the ways, and as many as ye should find, call to the nuptial feast. And those servants, having come to the ways, gathered together all, as many as they found, also both the evil and good, and the nuptial feast was filled with the reclining. And the king, having come in to behold the reclining, saw there a man not clad with the garment of the wedding: And he says to him, Friend, how camest thou in here, not having a garment of the nuptial feast? And he was muzzled. Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, and few chosen.

For many are called, and few chosen.

Wherefore then are ye no more foreigners and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the holy, and the household of God;

For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah chose in thee to be to him for a people of acquisition above all people which are upon the face of the earth.

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth: