My days of laziness are over -alas!

My favorite verse in scripture is : You are chosen before the foundation of the world ..unto good works..Is this a hybrid verse or two separate verses. i am feeling too lazy to check it..and also give the reference. The professors in US spoilt me during my young adult years-- whenever I was too lazy to look up Cruickshank to see the exact pH of the buffer to be used for experiment , they rattled it off- (Now ! Now ! I had other skills like good logic,exptl design , good execution of the expts,careful pipetting to list a few) My chinese friend taught me this : what? that - whenever you are to lazy to look up something,ask..Okay I am out of here