Predetermination

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

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;

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.

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

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 →

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.

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.

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

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 →

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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 →

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

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 →

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,

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.

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

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

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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.

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 →

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.

For many are called, but few chosen.”

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

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

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

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,

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,

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.” — 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.”

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:

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;

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

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

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 →

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

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.

What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

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

“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 →

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;

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.

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 →

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;

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

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:

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

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 →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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.

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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

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

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

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 →

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 to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

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

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 →

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?

and, “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

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.

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

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, will I take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says Yahweh, ‘and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

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.”

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

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, — 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 →

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

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.

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