God chose you based on the work of Jesus before He created the world and before Jesus was born.

God chose you based on the work of Jesus before He created the world and before Jesus was born.

“just as He chose [eklegomai] us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (Eph 1:4)

“who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began” (2Tim 1:9)

“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father.” (Rom 8:15)

“having predestined [proorizo] us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will” (Eph 1:5)

“In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined [proorizo] according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will” (Eph 1:11)

“But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose [haireomai] you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth” (2Thes 2:13)

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right [exousia] to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born [gennao], not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (Jn 1:12-13)

“You did not choose Me, but I chose [eklegomai] you and appointed [tithemi] you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.” (Jn 15:16)

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose [eklegomai] you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” (Jn 15:19)

“But God has chosen [eklegomai] the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen [eklegomai] the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty” (1Cor 1:27)

“and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen [eklegomai], and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are” (1Cor 1:28)

“For God did not appoint [tithemi] us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1Thes 5:9)

“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (Jn 17:24)

“He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you” (1Pet 1:20)

“in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began” (Tit 1:2)

“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined [proorizo] to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” (Rom 8:29)

“Moreover whom He predestined [proorizo], these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.” (Rom 8:30)

All that the Father gives [didomi] Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.” (Jn 6:37)

“This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given [didomi] Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.” (Jn 6:39)

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws [helkuo] him; and I will raise him up at the last day” (Jn 6:44)

“Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted [didomi] to him by My Father.” (Jn 6:65)

“that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given [didomi] Him.” (Jn 17:2)

“I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given [didomi] Me out of the world.” (Jn 17:6)

“I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given [didomi] Me, for they are Yours.” (Jn 17:9)

“Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given [didomi] Me, that they may be one as We are.” (Jn 17:11)

“I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave [didomi] Me I have kept; and none of them is lost” (Jn 17:12)

“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave [didomi] Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (Jn 17:24)

“that the saying might be fulfilled which He spoke, Of those whom You gave [didomi] Me I have lost none.” (Jn 18:9)

Reading: Jer 52; Ezek 1,2; Eph 1