The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.
I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.'
You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD yourselves, to serve him." They said, "We are witnesses."
They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!"
The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.
When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her."
He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"
Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.
For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.
"Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."
For many are called, but few chosen."
Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.'
You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,
Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, "My lord Moses, forbid them!"
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
"I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.
that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."
Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
the LORD said to Satan, "the LORD rebuke you, Satan! Yes, the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?"
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