They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased