This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you!

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

(as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) –