Bible Verses About Predestination: General references

But God said to Avraham, "Don't be distressed because of the boy and your slave-girl. Listen to everything Sarah says to you, because it is your descendants through Yitz'chak who will be counted.

But I will also make a nation from the son of the slave-girl, since he is descended from you."

But it is for this very reason that I have kept you alive -to show you my power, and so that my name may resound throughout the whole earth.

He replied, "I will cause all my goodness to pass before you, and in your presence I will pronounce the name of ADONAI. Moreover, I show favor to whomever I will, and I display mercy to whomever I will.

Because he loved your ancestors, chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt with his presence and great power,

ADONAI didn't set his heart on you or choose you because you numbered more than any other people - on the contrary, you were the fewest of all peoples.

Rather, it was because ADONAI loved you, and because he wanted to keep the oath which he had sworn to your ancestors, that ADONAI brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from a life of slavery under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Only ADONAI took enough pleasure in your ancestors to love them and choose their descendants after them -yourselves -above all peoples, as he still does today.

"When 'Elyon gave each nation its heritage, when he divided the human race, he assigned the boundaries of peoples according to Isra'el's population;

For it was ADONAI who caused them to harden their hearts and come against Isra'el in battle, so that they would be utterly destroyed, so that they would not find favor but be destroyed, in keeping with the orders ADONAI had given Moshe.

For the sake of his great reputation, ADONAI will not abandon his people; because it has pleased ADONAI to make you a people for himself.

So the king didn't listen to the people; and that was something ADONAI brought about, so that he could fulfill his word, which ADONAI had spoken through Achiyah from Shiloh to Yarov'am the son of N'vat.

Then he said to the king, "Here is what ADONAI says: 'Because you have let escape the man I had given over to be destroyed, you will pay with your life for his life and with your people for his people.'"

"'Haven't you heard? Long ago I made it; in antiquity I produced it; and now I am making it happen: you are turning fortified cities into heaps of ruins;

But now I have chosen Yerushalayim, so that my name can be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Isra'el.'

"But he has no equal, so who can change him? What he desires, he does.

He will accomplish what is decreed for me, and he has many plans like this

How blessed is the nation whose God is ADONAI, the people he chose as his heritage!

How blessed are those you choose and bring near, so that they can remain in your courtyards! We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the Holy Place of your temple.

Rejecting the tents of Yosef and passing over the tribe of Efrayim,

he chose the tribe of Y'hudah, Mount Tziyon, which he loved.

He chose David to be his servant, taking him from the sheep-yards;

from tending nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Ya'akov his people, Isra'el his heritage.

With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with skillful hands.

but sent a man ahead of them -Yosef, who was sold as a slave.