according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one
God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed t
He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by naili
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn a
but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord
For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the elect, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Chri
let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilt
If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short
Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocen
If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He h
And He will send out the angels to gather His elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heave
In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possessio
What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for g
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtu
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you w
For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive even the elect, if that
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel
Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obe
No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, s
To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jes
King Nebuchadnezzar, To the people of every nation and language who dwell in all the earth: May your prosperity be multi
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles migh
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all w
And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentl
We demolish arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to ma
that have been known for ages.’
It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, a
Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have co
Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriar
The children of your elect sister send you greetings.
Then King Darius wrote to the people of every nation and language throughout the land: “May your prosperity abound.
And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one e
And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and heirs from Judah; My elect will possess My mountains, and My servants
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that
The elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I alone, but also all who know the trut
For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, alo
For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive even the elect, if that were p