Bible Verses About Predestination

praising God and having the respect of all the people. And day after day the Lord kept adding to them those who were being saved.

But this is how God fulfilled what he had announced in advance, when he spoke through all the prophets, namely, that his Messiah was to die.

to do what your power and plan had already determined beforehand should happen.

The Gentiles were very happy to hear this. They honored the message about the Lord, and as many as had been appointed to eternal life came to trust.

“From one man he made every nation living on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the limits of their territories and the periods when they would flourish.

He said, ‘The God of our fathers determined in advance that you should know his will, see the Tzaddik and hear his voice;

including you, who have been called by Yeshua the Messiah.

Furthermore, we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called in accordance with his purpose;

because those whom he knew in advance, he also determined in advance would be conformed to the pattern of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers;

and those whom he thus determined in advance, he also called; and those whom he called, he also caused to be considered righteous; and those whom he caused to be considered righteous he also glorified!

So who will bring a charge against God’s chosen people? Certainly not God — he is the one who causes them to be considered righteous!

indeed, not all the descendants are seed of Avraham; rather, “What is to be called your ‘seed’ will be in Yitz’chak.”

In other words, it is not the physical children who are children of God, but the children the promise refers to who are considered seed.

For this is what the promise said: “At the time set, I will come; and Sarah will have a son.”

And even more to the point is the case of Rivkah; for both her children were conceived in a single act with Yitz’chak, our father;

and before they were born, before they had done anything at all, either good or bad (so that God’s plan might remain a matter of his sovereign choice, not dependent on what they did, but on God, who does the calling),

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

This accords with where it is written, “Ya‘akov I loved, but Esav I hated.”

So are we to say, “It is unjust for God to do this”? Heaven forbid!

For to Moshe he says, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will pity whom I pity.”

Thus it doesn’t depend on human desires or efforts, but on God, who has mercy.

For the Tanakh says to Pharaoh, “It is for this very reason that I raised you up, so that in connection with you I might demonstrate my power, so that my name might be known throughout the world.”

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

But you will say to me, “Then why does he still find fault with us? After all, who resists his will?”

Who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, “Why did you make me this way?”