Bible Verses About Predestination
This collection includes 50 passages about Predestination. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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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 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.
(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;)
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.
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,
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:
According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
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.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
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.
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
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.
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the electβs sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Godβs elect? It is God that justifieth.
The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
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.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
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;
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
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:
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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