'Choice' in the Bible

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 --

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

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,