Joh 15:16, 19, Rom 8:29, 2Th 2:13, 1Pe 1:1-2 | ESV | STEP | You did not choose me , but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide , so that whatever you ask the Father in my name , he may give it to you .

John 15:16

16 You did not choose me, but ^aI chose you and appointed you that you should go and ^bbear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ^cwhatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 15:19

19 ^dIf you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^eyou are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Romans 8:29

29 For those whom he ^fforeknew he also ^gpredestined ^hto be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be ⁱthe firstborn among many brothers.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

Stand Firm

13 But ^jwe ought always to give thanks to God for you, ^kbrothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you ^las the firstfruits ^{▼▼Some manuscripts chose you from the beginning} ⁿto be saved, ^othrough sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

1 Peter 1:1-2

Greeting

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who are elect exiles of ^pthe Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to ^qthe foreknowledge of God the Father, ^rin the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and ^sfor sprinkling with his blood:

May ^tgrace and ^upeace be multiplied to you.