• Romans 9:13-17
  As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated." What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion." So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, 'For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.'
   
• Hebrews 10:26-27
  For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
   
• 1 Corinthians 1:26-29
  For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
   

Related Scriptures

• Isaiah 66:1-2
  Thus says the LORD:
  "Heaven is My throne,
  And earth is My footstool.
  Where is the house that you will build Me?
  And where is the place of My rest?
  For all those things My hand has made,
  And all those things exist,"
  Says the LORD.
  "But on this one will I look:
  On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
  And who trembles at My word.
  
   
• Malachi 3:6
  "For I am the LORD, I do not change;
  Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
  
   
• Romans 5:8
  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.