LSB #573 "Lord, 'Tis Not That I Did Choose Thee"

Biblical citations in the hymnal:  John 15:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 Peter 2:9-10; 1 John 4:10, 19

John 15:16:  "'You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.'"

Ephesians 2:8-9:  "8 For by grace you have been saved through faith.  And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast."

1 Peter 2:9-10:  "9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.  10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy."

1 John 4:10:  "In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."

1 John 4:19:  "We love because he first loved us."

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The text is public domain:

Lord, 'tis not that I did choose Thee;

That, I know, could never be;

For this heart would still refuse Thee

Had Thy grace not chosen me.

Thou hast from the sin that stained me

Washed and cleansed and set me free

And unto this end ordained me,

That I ever live to Thee.

It was grace in Christ that called me,

Taught my darkened heart and mind;

Else the world had yet enthralled me,

To Thy heav'nly glories blind.

Now I worship none above Thee;

For Thy grace alone I thirst,

Knowing well that, if I love Thee,

Thou, O Lord, didst love me first.

Praise the God of all creation;

Praise the Father's boundless love.

Praise the Lamb, our expiation,

Priest and King enthroned above.

Praise the Spirit of salvation,

Him by whom our spirits live.

Undivided adoration

To the great Jehovah give.

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John 15:16 appears in the first half of the first verse, but there's also some overlap with 1 Peter 2:9-10, specifically "you are a chosen race."  The "royal priesthood" from 1 Peter 2:9 seems to be what the phrase "ordained me" refers to.  Being "called... out of darkness" appears at the beginning of the second verse:  "It was grace in Christ that called me, / Taught my darkened heart and mind."  The hymn also combines being chosen and called with the grace mentioned in Ephesians 2:8-9.

The two verses from 1 John 4 both seem to appear in the lines "Knowing well that, if I love Thee, / Thou, O Lord, didst love me first" in the second verse.