17 Bible Verses about Being Chosen

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;

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,

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

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.

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

in whom also we have been called, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works out all things according to the counsel of his will,

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.

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.

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;

this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

When he puts out all his sheep he goes before them, and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice.

AND Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man, a king, who made a wedding for his son. And he sent his servants to call the invited to the wedding, and they would not come.read more.
Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell the invited, Behold, I have prepared my supper, my oxen and fatted creatures are killed, and all things are ready; come to the wedding. But they neglected it, and went away, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise; and the rest took his servants and treated them injuriously, and killed them. And the king was angry, and sent his armies and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city. Then he said to his servants, The wedding indeed is ready, but the invited were not worthy. Go, therefore, to the crossings of the ways, and invite all you find to the wedding. And those servants went out into the highways, and collected all whom they found, both bad and good, and the wedding was furnished with guests. And the king coming in to see the guests observed there a man who had not on a wedding garment, and said to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, Bind his feet and hands, and cast him into the darkness outside. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few chosen.

For many are called, but few chosen.

Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the family of God,

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,