Therefore, prepare your minds for action,{Literally, "gird up the loins of your mind"} be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--
Paul tells us in Ephesians 1:0 that "we were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world" ( Ephesians 1:4 ). Here election is according to the foreknowledge of God.