'Choose' in the Bible

Jesus replied, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?"

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

we have unanimously decided to choose men to send to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?