21 Bible Verses about Chosen Disciples

and when day broke he summoned his disciples, choosing twelve of them, to whom he gave the name of 'apostles':

are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser;

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

When I say 'you,' I do not mean you all; I know the men of my choice, and I made my choice that this scripture might be fulfilled, he who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil!"

and they prayed, "O Lord, who readest the hearts of all, do thou single out from these two men him whom thou hast chosen

down to the day when, after issuing his orders by the holy Spirit to the disciples whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven.

Salute that choice Christian, Rufus; also his mother, who has been a mother to me.

But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

O brothers beloved by God, we know he has chosen you;

Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

Listen, my beloved brothers; has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the realm which he has promised to those who love him?

So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings ??the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."

and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),

and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong;

Well, at the present day there is also a remnant, selected by grace.

Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you.

God has chosen what is mean and despised in the world ??things which are not, to put down things that are;