So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace … To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? … In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.

For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you … Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies … And the Lord said, “Will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off ? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Ro 11:5, Co 1:27; Ja 2:5, Ep 1:11; 1Th 1:4, Co 3:12; Ro 8:33, Lu 18:6-8; 1Pe 2:9-10

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