PREDESTINATION

Passages on this topic · 151

• Genesis 21:12

  God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.

• Genesis 21:13

  I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”

• Exodus 9:16

  but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;

• Exodus 33:19

  He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

• Deuteronomy 4:37

  Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

• Deuteronomy 7:7

  Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

• Deuteronomy 7:8

  but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 10:15

  Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

• Deuteronomy 32:8

  When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 11:20

  For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Judges 14:4

  But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.

• 1 Samuel 2:25

  If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

• 1 Samuel 12:22

  For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

• 1 Kings 12:15

  So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

• 1 Kings 20:42

  He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’”

• 2 Kings 19:25

  Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

• 2 Chronicles 6:6

  but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

• 2 Chronicles 22:7

  Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 25:20

  But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.

• Nehemiah 9:7

  You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,

• Nehemiah 9:8

  found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

• Job 23:13

  But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

• Job 23:14

  For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

• Psalms 33:12

  Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

• Psalms 65:4

  Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

• Psalms 78:67

  Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

• Psalms 78:68

  But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

• Psalms 78:70

  He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

• Psalms 78:71

  from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

• Psalms 78:72

  So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

• Psalms 105:17

  He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

• Psalms 105:18

  They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

• Psalms 105:19

  until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.

• Psalms 105:20

  The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

• Psalms 105:21

  He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

• Psalms 105:22

  to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

• Psalms 135:4

  For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.

• Proverbs 16:4

  Yahweh has made everything for its own end — yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

• Isaiah 44:1

  Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

• Isaiah 44:2

  This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

• Isaiah 44:7

  Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

• Jeremiah 1:4

  Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

• Jeremiah 1:5

  “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

• Haggai 2:23

  In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, will I take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says Yahweh, ‘and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

• Malachi 1:2

  “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;

• Malachi 1:3

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

• Matthew 11:25

  At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

• Matthew 11:26

  Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

• Matthew 20:16

  So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

• Matthew 20:23

  He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

• Matthew 22:14

  For many are called, but few chosen.”

• Matthew 24:22

  Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

• Matthew 24:40

  Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left;

• Matthew 24:41

  two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.

• Matthew 25:34

  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;

• Matthew 26:24

  The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

• Mark 13:20

  Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

• Mark 13:22

  For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

• Mark 14:21

  For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

• Luke 4:25

  But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

• Luke 4:26

  Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

• Luke 4:27

  There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

• Luke 8:10

  He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

• Luke 10:20

  Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

• Luke 17:34

  I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left.

• Luke 17:35

  There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left.”

• Luke 17:36
• Luke 18:7

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

• Luke 22:22

  The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

• John 6:37

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

• John 6:39

  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.

• John 6:44

  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

• John 6:45

  It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.

• John 13:18

  I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

• John 15:16

  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.

• John 15:19

  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

• John 17:2

  even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

• John 17:6

  I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

• John 17:9

  I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

• John 21:23

  This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”

• Acts 1:7

  He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

• Acts 2:23

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

• Acts 2:39

  For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

• Acts 2:47

  praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

• Acts 3:18

  But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

• Acts 4:28

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

• Acts 13:48

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

• Acts 17:26

  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,

• Acts 22:14

  He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

• Romans 1:6

  among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

• Romans 8:28

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

• Romans 8:29

  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.

• Romans 8:30

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

• Romans 8:33

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

• Romans 9:7

  Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

• Romans 9:8

  That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

• Romans 9:9

  For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”

• Romans 9:10

  Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

• Romans 9:11

  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,

• Romans 9:12

  it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

• Romans 9:13

  Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

• Romans 9:14

  What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

• Romans 9:15

  For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

• Romans 9:16

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

• Romans 9:17

  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.”

• Romans 9:18

  So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

• Romans 9:19

  You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

• Romans 9:20

  But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

• Romans 9:21

  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?

• Romans 9:22

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

• Romans 9:23

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

• Romans 9:24

  us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

• Romans 9:25

  As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”

• Romans 9:26

  “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

• Romans 9:27

  Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

• Romans 9:28

  for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”

• Romans 9:29

  As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

• Romans 9:30

  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

• Romans 9:31

  but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

• Romans 9:32

  Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

• Romans 9:33

  even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

• Romans 11:5

  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

• Romans 11:7

  What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

• Romans 11:8

  According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

• Romans 16:13

  Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

• 1 Corinthians 1:26

  For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

• 1 Corinthians 1:27

  but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

• 1 Corinthians 1:28

  and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

• 1 Corinthians 1:29

  that no flesh should boast before God.

• 1 Corinthians 2:7

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

• Galatians 1:15

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

• Ephesians 1:4

  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;

• Ephesians 1:5

  having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

• Ephesians 1:9

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

• Ephesians 1:10

  to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

• Ephesians 1:11

  in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;

• Ephesians 2:10

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

• Ephesians 3:11

  according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;

• Colossians 3:12

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

• 1 Thessalonians 1:4

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

• 1 Thessalonians 2:12

  to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:13

  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;

• 2 Timothy 1:9

  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,

• Titus 1:1

  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,

• Titus 1:2

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

• James 1:18

  Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

• 1 Peter 1:2

  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.

• 1 Peter 1:20

  who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

• 2 Peter 1:4

  by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

• 2 Peter 1:10

  Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

• Revelation 13:8

  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.