For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Messiah Yeshua before times eternal,