Predestined

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.

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;

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

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 →

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

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 →

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.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

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,

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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.

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,

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

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;

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; — read the full passage →

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

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

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.

Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

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,

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

For many are called, but few chosen.”

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;

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

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

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

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:

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; — read the full passage →

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

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 he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

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

according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;

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; — read the full passage →

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

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

Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

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;

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

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.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. — read the full passage →

Neither, because they are Abraham’s seed, are they all children. But, “In Isaac will your seed be called.” — read the full passage →

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

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 →

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

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

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about of Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: — read the full passage →

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.