Deuteronomy 7:7-8  It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,  8  but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Deuteronomy 10:14-15  “Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.  15  Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.”

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Matthew 24:22-24  “And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.  23  Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.  24  For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.”

 

Matthew 24:31  “And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

 

John 6:37-39  “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.  38  For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.  39  And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.”

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John 6:65  And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

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Matthew 11:27  “No one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

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John 17:9  “I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.”

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Romans 8:29-30  “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.  30  And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.”

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Romans 11:5  “So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.”

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Ephesians 1:4-5  “He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love  5  he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.”

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Ephesians 1:11  “In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

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1 Thessalonians 1:4-5  “For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,  5  because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.”

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1 Thessalonians 5:9  “For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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2 Thessalonians 2:13  “But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.”

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1 Peter 1:1-2  “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,  2  according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.”

 

1 Peter 2:7-9  “So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”  8  and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.  9  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”