Bible Verses About Personal Choice

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:

Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will.

Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

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

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the Lord, offer it at your own will.

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee

There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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 God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.