Election
Scripture's language of choosing and being chosen: Israel, the church, and the debates that have followed.
Deut 7:6-8
Read in full chapter →6For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
See also: 1 Peter 2:9, Deuteronomy 14:2
7The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
See also: Jeremiah 31:3, Deuteronomy 23:5
8But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
See also: Deuteronomy 8:18, Exodus 20:2
John 15:16
Read in full chapter →16Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
See also: Luke 11:9, Psalms 37:4
Eph 1:4-5
Read in full chapter →4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
See also: Romans 8:29, 2 Timothy 1:9
5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
See also: Romans 8:29-30, Philippians 2:13
Rom 8:29-30
Read in full chapter →29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
See also: Ephesians 1:4-5, Jeremiah 1:5
30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
See also: Romans 8:28, Isaiah 44:2