For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
So the scripture does teach divine election. It never teaches divine election apart from the foreknowledge of God. Whom He did foreknow, He did also predestinate, that they shall be conformed in the image of His Son. And so Paul taught the doctrine of divine election to the church in just a month's time.