Preordained

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 →

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;

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 →

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.

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.

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

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;

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

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

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

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

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

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 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:

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.

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,

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

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.

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.

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

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

“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.”

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, — read the full passage →

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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 →

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

but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

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

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 →

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

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 →

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

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

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.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

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,

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; — read the full passage →

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;

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

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

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

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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;

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

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

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 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.”

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

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

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

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.

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

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

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

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;

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.

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

For many are called, but few chosen.”

“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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 →

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

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 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 →

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. — read the full passage →

and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

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

Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?” — read the full passage →

it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.” — read the full passage →

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope — read the full passage →

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.