¹⁴ “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”^(A)

²² “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect^(A) those days will be shortened.

⁷ And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out^(A) to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

³³ Who will bring any charge^(A) against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.

¹² Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves^(A) with compassion, kindness, humility,^(B) gentleness and patience.^(C)

²⁷ But God chose^(A) the foolish^(B) things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. ²⁸ God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not^(C)—to nullify the things that are,

⁴ For we know, brothers and sisters^[a] loved by God,^(A) that he has chosen you,

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers and sisters:^(A) Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world^(B) to be rich in faith^(C) and to inherit the kingdom^(D) he promised those who love him?^(E)