including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,
They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
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