in whom we also were chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of the One working all things according to the counsel of His own will,
the one coming to you, as also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit even also among you, from the day in which you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
the One having saved us and having called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace given to us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,
But you are “an elect race,” “a royal priesthood,” “a holy nation,” “a people for possession,” so that “you may proclaim the excellencies” of the One who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; LXX-Ex. 23:22; MT-Ex. 19:5, 6
Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the ones called in God the Father, having been sanctified, and having been kept to Jesus Christ:
These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will prevail over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and the ones with Him are the called ones and elect ones and faithful ones.