Deut 14:2 (NASU) "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
1Sam 9:17 (NASU) When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, "Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! This one shall rule over My people."
Hose 9:10 (NASU) I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first [season]. [But] they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved.
Matt 22:14 (NASU) "For many are called, but few [are] chosen."
Roma 9:18 (NASU) So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
Ephe 1:4 (NASU) just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love
2The 2:13 (NASU) But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
1Pet 2:9 (NASU) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
10 for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.