Bible Verses About Selection

Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee

For many are called, but few are chosen.

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.

Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:

What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded

Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;

Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,