Bible Verses About Free Will
This collection includes 50 passages about Free Will. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Scripture Passages
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
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:
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
(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;)
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
There are many devices in a manβs heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.
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.
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
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