21 Bible Verses about Chosen Disciples

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

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I am not speaking of you all. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'he who ate my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"

And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before him. In love

For we know, brethren beloved by God, that he has chosen you;

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

Listen, my beloved brethren: has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

Therefore, brethren, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall;

These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with him are the called and chosen and faithful."

though the twins were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might stand, not because of works but because of his call,

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong,

So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen exiles in the Dispersion, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling with his blood: may grace and peace be yours in abundance.

God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,