STRONGS G2822:
													
												
									    		κλητός, 
κλητή, 
κλητον (
κλαέω) (from 
Homer down), 
called, invited (to a banquet (
1 Kings 1:41, 
49); 3Macc. 5:14; 
Aeschines 50, 1); in the N. T. 
a. "invited (by God in the proclamation of the gospel) to obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God through Christ" (see 
καλέω, 1 b. 
β'. (cf. 
Winer's Grammar, 35 (34))): 
Romans 8:28; 
1 Corinthians 1:24; 
Jude 1:1; 
κλητοί καί ἐκλεκτοί καί πιστοί, 
Revelation 17:14; 
κλητοί and 
ἐκλεκτοί are distinguished (see 
ἐκλεκτός, 1 a.) in 
Matthew 20:16 (
T WH omit; 
Tr brackets the clause); 
Matthew 22:14, a distinction which does not agree with Paul's view (see 
καλέω, as above; (Weiss, Biblical Theol. § 88; 
Lightfoot's Commentary on 
Colossians 3:12)); 
κλητοί Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, genitive of possessor (
Winers Grammar, 195 (183); 
Buttmann, § 132, 23), devoted to Christ and united to him, 
Romans 1:6; 
κλητοί ἅγιοι, "holy (or 'saints') by the calling of God," 
Romans 1:7; 
1 Corinthians 1:2. 
b. called to (the discharge of) some office: 
κλητός ἀπόστολος, i. e. divinely selected and appointed (see 
καλέω, as above), 
Romans 1:1; 
1 Corinthians 1:1 (
L brackets 
κλητός); cf. 
Galatians 1:15. 
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