• 1 Peter 2:9-10
  But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
   
• Romans 9:22-24
  What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
   
• Jeremiah 1:5-8
  “ Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
  Before you were born I sanctified you;
  I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Then said I:
  “ Ah, Lord GOD!
  Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.” But the LORD said to me:
  “ Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
  For you shall go to all to whom I send you,
  And whatever I command you, you shall speak.
  Do not be afraid of their faces,
  For I am with you to deliver you,” says the LORD.
   
• 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
  But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
   
• Numbers 16:5-7
  and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, "Tomorrow morning the LORD will show who is His and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to Him. That one whom He chooses He will cause to come near to Him. Do this: Take censers, Korah and all your company; put fire in them and put incense in them before the LORD tomorrow, and it shall be that the man whom the LORD chooses is the holy one. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!”
   
• Deuteronomy 14:23-25
  And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you, then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses.
   
• Deuteronomy 16:6-7
  but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt. And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
   
• Deuteronomy 16:15-16
  Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice. “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.
   
• Deuteronomy 31:10-11
  And Moses commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
   

Related Scriptures

• Ephesians 2:4-8
  But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
   
• Romans 6:12-14
  Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
   
• Romans 8:28
  And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
   
• Exodus 33:19
  Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
   
• Judges 2:16
  Nevertheless, the LORD raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
   
• Judges 2:18
  And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.
   
• 1 Samuel 15:1
  Samuel also said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the LORD.
   
• Psalm 115:3
  But our God is in heaven;
  He does whatever He pleases.
  
   
• Isaiah 46:9-11
  Remember the former things of old,
  For I am God, and there is no other;
  I am God, and there is none like Me,
  Declaring the end from the beginning,
  And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
  Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
  And I will do all My pleasure,’
  Calling a bird of prey from the east,
  The man who executes My counsel, from a far country.
  Indeed I have spoken it;
  I will also bring it to pass.
  I have purposed it;
  I will also do it.
  
   
• Isaiah 58:5
  Is it a fast that I have chosen,
  A day for a man to afflict his soul?
  Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush,
  And to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
  Would you call this a fast,
  And an acceptable day to the LORD?
  
   
• Jeremiah 50:44
  “ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan
  Against the dwelling place of the strong;
  But I will make them suddenly run away from her.
  And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her?
  For who is like Me?
  Who will arraign Me?
  And who is that shepherd
  Who will withstand Me?”
  
   
• Matthew 20:23
  So He said to them, “You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared by My Father.”
   
• Mark 10:40
  but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared.”
   
• John 14:2
  In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
   
• 1 Corinthians 4:7
  For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
   
• Daniel 4:35
  All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
  He does according to His will in the army of heaven
  And among the inhabitants of the earth.
  No one can restrain His hand
  Or say to Him, “What have You done?”