'Choice' in the Bible

For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it)

Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous,

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

Therefore, God's choice does not depend on a person's will or effort, but on God himself, who shows mercy.

So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;

But if it is in His grace that He has selected them, then His choice is no longer determined by human actions. Otherwise grace would be grace no longer.

As regards, indeed, the good tidings, they are enemies on your account; and as regards the choice -- beloved on account of the fathers;

Salute Rufus, the choice one in the Lord, and his mother and mine,