But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
Some Calvinists believe we are predestined for eternal life or eternal damnation based on this verse and other similar ones. God does not predestine any of us to heaven or hell. We are free moral agents, capable of making up our own minds whether to obey the truth and be saved or disobey it and be lost.