It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

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) –