'Selection' in the Bible

See my servant, the man of my selection, my loved one in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him, and he will make my decision clear to the Gentiles.

Now at the feast it was the way for the ruler to let free to the people one prisoner, at their selection.

And the day came and, turning to his disciples, he made a selection from among them of twelve, to whom he gave the name of Apostles;

And there was a voice from the cloud saying, This is my Son, the man of my selection; give ear to him.

Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.

And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.

Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One?

Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:

And they made selection of two, Joseph, named Barsabbas, whose other name was Justus, and Matthias.

And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew:

The God of this people Israel made selection of our fathers, lifting the people up from their low condition when they were living in the land of Egypt, and with a strong arm took them out of it.

And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.

After a long debate, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

and though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything either good or bad, so that God’s purpose [His choice, His election] would stand, not because of works [done by either child], but because of [the plan of] Him who calls them,

God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,

In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.

What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

From the standpoint of the gospel, the Jews [at present] are enemies [of God] for your sake [which is for your benefit], but from the standpoint of God’s choice [of the Jews as His people], they are still loved by Him for the sake of the fathers.

Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.

To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;

And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

And when I come, I will send the men of your selection with letters to take the money you have got together to Jerusalem.

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.

For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;

The children of your noble sister, who is of God's selection, send you their love.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ: