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Bible Verses About Divine Foreknowledge

This collection includes 50 passages about Divine Foreknowledge. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

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And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

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In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

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(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

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Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

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Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

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Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

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According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

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Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

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Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

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For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

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And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?

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Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

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Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

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And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

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O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

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According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

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But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

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For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

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For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

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Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

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For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

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But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

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And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

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But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

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For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

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The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

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I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

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For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

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God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

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For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

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They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

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For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

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Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

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The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.

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