35 Bible Verses About Being Chosen By God

1 Peter 2:9

“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”

John 15:16

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.”

Jeremiah 1:5

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

1 Corinthians 1:27

“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.”

Psalm 33:12

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance.”

Isaiah 42:1

“Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations.”

John 6:44

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

Ephesians 1:4

“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love.”

Isaiah 49:1

“Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the LORD called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.”

Matthew 22:14

“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

John 1:12

“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.”

Deuteronomy 7:6

“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.”

John 15:19

“If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.”

1 Thessalonians 1:4

“For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you.”

Psalm 105:6

“You his servants, the descendants of Abraham, his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.”

John 6:65

“He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”

Romans 9:16

“It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.”

Isaiah 43:10

““You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.”

John 15:5

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

Exodus 19:5

“Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine.”

John 13:18

“I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.'”

Galatians 1:15

“But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased.”

2 Thessalonians 2:13

“But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.”

John 6:37

“All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.”

Isaiah 65:9

“I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah those who will possess my mountains; my chosen people will inherit them, and there will my servants live.”

Romans 8:30

“And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.”

Acts 9:15

“But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.”

1 Peter 1:2

“who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.”

Jeremiah 31:3

“The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.'”

John 10:27-28

“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.”

1 Peter 2:4

“As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him.”

Matthew 22:14

“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

Isaiah 41:9

“I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, ‘You are my servant’; I have chosen you and have not rejected you.”

John 15:16

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.”

Ephesians 1:11

“In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.”

Acts 13:17

“The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors; he made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt; with mighty power he led them out of that country.”

2 Timothy 1:9

“He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.”

Psalm 105:43

“He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy.”

John 6:70

“Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!””

1 Corinthians 1:26

“Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.”

John 15:19

“If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.”