God Chose You

The Lord set his affection on you and choose you. 1 God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. 2

Once you were not a people, once you had not received mercy. 3 Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, without hope and without God in the world. 4 But now you have received mercy. 

Now you are God’s people, 5 God’s elect, 6 chosen by grace, 7 not because of your righteousness or your integrity 8

It was because the Lord loved you. 9 The Lord was pleased to make you his own. 10 

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. 11 As God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 12

 

1 Deut 7.7 2 2Th 2.13 3 1Pet 2.10 4 Eph 2.12 5 1Pet 2.10 6 Titus 1.1 7 Rom 11.5 8 Deut 9.5 9 Deut 7.8 10 1Sam 12.22 11 1Pet 2.9 12 Col 3.12