Rom 9:11,13,15-16.   (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) ...As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. ...For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. Eph 2:8-9.   For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph 1:5,9,11.   Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, ...Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: ...In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: