Free Will

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants; — read the full passage →

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: — read the full passage →

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; — read the full passage →

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. — read the full passage →

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. — read the full passage →

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together — read the full passage →

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be. — read the full passage →

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer; when I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love; — read the full passage →

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, — read the full passage →

He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: — read the full passage →

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.