'Choose' in the Bible

He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noticed how they would choose the best places for themselves:

Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is the Devil!”

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

Now if I live on in the flesh, this means fruitful work for me; and I don’t know which one I should choose.

Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?