'Chose' in the Bible

Unless the Lord limited those days, no one would survive. But He limited those days because of the elect, whom He chose.

When daylight came, He summoned His disciples, and He chose 12 of them—He also named them apostles:

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.

The proposal pleased the whole company. So they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte from Antioch.

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, exalted the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty arm.

Then Paul chose Silas and departed, after being commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers.

For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love

and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.