Bible verses about "choice" | DouayRheims

¹⁵ Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?

³ Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

⁵ Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.

²² All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal him.

⁴ As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the gate and knock. If any man shall hear my voice and open to me the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him: and he with me.

¹⁵ But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve thee Lord,

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live: ²⁰ And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.

⁴⁸ And the Gentiles hearing it were glad and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting believed.

^{70 (6:71)} Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve? And one of you is a devil.

⁴⁴ No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him. And I will raise him up in the last day.

¹⁵ But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace,

^{13 (2:12)} But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto salvation, in sanctification of the spirit and faith of the truth:

¹⁶ You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

²⁸ And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. ²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren. ³⁰ And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also glorified.

⁸ And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.

⁴ As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity. ⁵ Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will: