God’s Plan in Choosing

To be His treasures possession

Deuteronomy 7:6  

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
To bear lasting fruit

John 15:16  

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
So that no one may boast

1 Corinthians 1:29  

So that no one may boast before him.

To be Holy and blameless

Ephesians 1:4  

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. 

To be saved through the Spirit

2 Thessalonians 2:13  

But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

To declare the praises of Him

1 Peter 2:9  

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

To be rich in faith

James 2:5  

Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?