In NT, God is the Choser; the Elect are the Chosen
The Big question we have is why did God choose certain ones, the elect. Why did He choose me. I don't think scripture answers that, and that we will be as Job in this life, not knowing why he suffered (tho in our case it isn't suffering). Now if someone has passage that tells WHY God chose whom He chose, kindly post it for us all to see.
Poverty is given as a factor in James:
Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?
but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:
Here are some NT passages where God is chooser,
(some) men (the elect) are the chosen:
[I omit a definite choice to a job, like to be apostle]
Christ is Himself the chosen, and the elect were chosen in Christ
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
Salute Rufus the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
For many are called, but few chosen.
And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect’s sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil?
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth my bread lifted up his heel against me.
Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they sojourned in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm led he them forth out of it.
But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: