Calvinism

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren; — read the full passage →

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love, — read the full passage →

And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe--as many as were appointed to life age-during;

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

so, then--not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

according as it hath been written--`There is none righteous, not even one; — read the full passage →

`Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers--also ye;

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

And we--we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, — read the full passage →

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.' — read the full passage →

for Moses doth describe the righteousness that <FI>is<Fi> of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,' — read the full passage →

for many are called, and few chosen.'

`For this command which I am commanding thee to-day, it is not too wonderful for thee, nor <FI>is<Fi> it far off. — read the full passage →

for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;' — read the full passage →

because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

`I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

and I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.'

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.' — read the full passage →

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

for the Writing saith to Pharaoh--`For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose; — read the full passage →

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me, — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.' — read the full passage →

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

And we--we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, — read the full passage →

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.' — read the full passage →

who--not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but--of God were begotten.

all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,

and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

The soul that doth sin--it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him. — read the full passage →

and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.

and he said, `Because of this I have said to you--No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'

nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form <FI>it<Fi> , Why me didst thou make thus? — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been; — read the full passage →

so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, — read the full passage →

he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself, — read the full passage →

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God <FI>is<Fi> He that is declaring righteous,

he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth--the good news of your salvation--in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but--that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, — read the full passage →

and when God was well pleased--having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called <FI>me<Fi> through His grace-- — read the full passage →

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable; — read the full passage →

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;' — read the full passage →

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish--to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; — read the full passage →

but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes. — read the full passage →

All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.

for <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love, — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness <FI>is<Fi> with God? let it not be!

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her--

and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul;

I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;

`I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name, — read the full passage →

Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?

All things hath Jehovah wrought for Himself, And also the wicked <FI>worketh<Fi> for a day of evil.

because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;