The following verses should not be thought to imply that we did not also freely choose God.  Nor are they intended to show that there are not other influences that keep a person from believing in God.

The verses are intended to show the many instances where God elects or chooses us both before and apart from anything we do and that He chooses us according to His own will and purpose, not ours.

God chooses us for salvation before we existed.
God chooses us according to His will first not our will
God gives us to Christ before we give ourselves to Christ.
Many are called but God chooses only a few..
God elects or predestines people to eternal life.
God hides saving knowledge from some people.
God grants faith and repentance.
God’s chooses us so He is glory is maximised. 

God chooses us for salvation before we existed

Eph 1:4 NKJV  just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

Rev 17:8 NKJV  The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

2Th 2:13-14 NKJV  But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,  14  to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Mat 25:34 NKJV  Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

God chooses us according to His will not our will

Jas 1:18 NKJV  Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

Eph 1:4-5 NKJV  just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,  5  having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Eph 1:9 NKJV  having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,

Eph 1:11 NKJV  In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

Mat 11:27 NKJV  All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

Luk 10:22 NKJV  All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”

Joh 6:44 NKJV  No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Joh 6:65 NKJV  And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”

Act 2:38-39 NKJV  Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  39  For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Rom 8:28 NKJV  And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Rom 9:11 NKJV  (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),

Rom 9:15-16 NKJV  For He says to Moses, “I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOMEVER I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOMEVER I WILL HAVE COMPASSION.”  16  So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

Rom 9:18-21 NKJV  Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.  19  You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”  20  But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”  21  Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

God gives us to Christ before we give ourselves to Christ

Joh 6:37 NKJV  All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.

Joh 10:26-29 NKJV  But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.  27  My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. … 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

Joh 17:6-12 NKJV  “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.  …   9  “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. …  12  While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Heb 12:2 NKJV  looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Joh 3:27 NKJV  John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Many are called but God chooses only a few

Mat 22:14 NKJV  “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Joh 15:16 NKJV  You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

God elects or predestines people to eternal life

Act 13:48 NKJV  Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

Rom 8:29-30 NKJV  For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.  30  Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Eph 1:4-5 NKJV  just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,  5  having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Eph 1:11 NKJV  In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

God hides saving knowledge from some people

Mat 11:24-25 NKJV  But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.”  25  At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.

Joh 12:39-40 NKJV  Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:  40  “HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HARDENED THEIR HEARTS, LEST THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, LEST THEY SHOULD UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEARTS AND TURN, SO THAT I SHOULD HEAL THEM.”

Mat 13:11 NKJV  He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

Mar 4:11-12 NKJV  And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,  12  so that ‘SEEING THEY MAY SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE, AND HEARING THEY MAY HEAR AND NOT UNDERSTAND; LEST THEY SHOULD TURN, AND THEIR SINS BE FORGIVEN THEM.’ ”

Joh 9:39 NKJV  And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”

God grants faith and repentance

Joh 10:26 NKJV  But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.

2Ti 2:24-26 NKJV  And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,  25  in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,  26  and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

Php 1:29 NKJV  For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

Eph 2:8-9 NKJV  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,  9  not of works, lest anyone should boast.

God’s chooses us so He is glory is maximised

Rom 11:32-36 NKJV  For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.  …  36  For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.