“What hast thou that thou didst not receive?” 1 Cor. iv. 7. “Are we better than they? No, in no wise,” Rom. iii. 9. But we are “predestinated to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,” Eph. i. 5; John vi. 37–39, x. 3, xiii. 18, xvii. 6; Acts xiii. 48; Tit. i. 1; 2 Tim. ii. 19; James i. 17, 18, etc.