God's sovereign choice of individuals and nations is a recurring theme throughout Scripture. In Jeremiah, the prophet is told that he was chosen before his birth, highlighting God's sovereign purpose. The New Testament teaches that believers are chosen by God, as seen in John's Gospel where Jesus says His disciples were chosen by Him, and in 1 Peter, where believers are described as a chosen people. This concept is further developed in Ephesians, where Paul writes that believers were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world, and also in Deuteronomy, where Israel is reminded of their special status as a chosen people.
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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 you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.
To this He called you through our gospel, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.