15 Bible Verses about election, responsibilities of

And there came a voice out of the cloud saying, This is my beloved Son, hear ye Him.

Then he permitted Him. And Jesus as soon as He was baptized came up from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened unto Him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and coming upon Him: and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

but Jesus knew it, and withdrew from thence; and great multitudes followed Him with their sick, and he healed them all, charging them not to make Him known: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Behold my servant whom I have chosen,read more.
my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon Him, and He shall declare judgement to the nations: He shall not contend, nor cry aloud, nor shall any one hear his voice in the streets: a bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax he will not extinguish, till He send forth judgement victorious. And in his name shall the Gentiles hope.

knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain conversation learned by tradition from your fathers, not with corruptible things, as silver and gold; but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who was indeed appointed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times, for your sakes,read more.
who through Him trust in God that raised Him from the dead, and gave Him glory, that your faith and hope might be fixed in God.

to whom coming as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also are built up as living stones, a spiritual house, an holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Whence also it is said in scripture, Behold I lay in Sion a chief corner-stone, choice and precious: and he that confideth on it shall not be ashamed.

And when it was day, He called his disciples to Him: and chose out twelve from among them, whom He also named his apostles: (to wit, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James,read more.
and Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor:)

and He appointed twelve to be with Him, and that He might send them forth to preach the gospel, and to have power to heal diseases, and to cast out demons; even Simon, whom He surnamed Peter,read more.
and James the Son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, (and He surnamed them Boanerges, which is to say, Sons of thunder,) and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, even him who betrayed Him.

Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen: but have done it that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heel against me.

Ye did not first choose me, but I chose you, and have appointed you to go forth, and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be lasting: that whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, He may give it you.

till the day in which He was taken up, after He had by the holy Spirit given instructions to the apostles whom He had chosen:

But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way, for he is the instrument I have chosen, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: for I will shew him how great sufferings he must endure for my name.

And he said, The God of our Fathers hath before appointed thee to know his will, and to see the just One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. For thou shalt be his witness unto all men, of what thou hast seen and heard.

Paul a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth,