What the Bible has to Say About Choice

Deut 30:19 (NASU) "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,
20 by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

Josh 24:24 (NASU) The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the Lord our God and we will obey His voice."

1Kin 18:21 (NASU) Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long [will] you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people did not answer him a word.

Job 34:4 (NASU) "Let us choose for ourselves what is right; Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Psal 25:12 (NASU) Who is the man who fears the Lord? He will instruct him in the way he should choose.

Psal 119:30 (NASU) I have chosen the faithful way; I have placed Your ordinances [before me].
31 I cling to Your testimonies; O Lord, do not put me to shame!

Psal 119:173 (NASU) Let Your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen Your precepts.

Isai 7:15 (NASU) "He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows [enough] to refuse evil and choose good.

John 15:19 (NASU) "If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

1Cor 1:27 (NASU) but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,
28 and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,
29 so that no man may boast before God.

Hebr 11:24 (NASU) By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
25 choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

1Pet 5:2 (NASU) shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to [the will of] God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness;