Bible Verses About Predestination

and will put into effect when the time is ripe — his plan to place everything in heaven and on earth under the Messiah’s headship.

Also in union with him we were given an inheritance, we who were picked in advance according to the purpose of the One who effects everything in keeping with the decision of his will,

For we are of God’s making, created in union with the Messiah Yeshua for a life of good actions already prepared by God for us to do.

This accords with God’s age-old purpose, accomplished in the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with feelings of compassion and with kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

We know, brothers, that God has loved and chosen you;

we encouraged you and comforted you and appealed to you to lead lives worthy of God, who calls you into his Kingdom and glory.

But we have to keep thanking God for you always, brothers whom the Lord loves, because God chose you as firstfruits for deliverance by giving you the holiness that has its origin in the Spirit and the faithfulness that has its origin in the truth.

since he delivered us and called us to a life of holiness as his people. It was not because of our deeds, but because of his own purpose and the grace which he gave to us who are united with the Messiah Yeshua. He did this before the beginning of time,

From: Sha’ul, God’s slave and an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah, sent to promote among God’s chosen people the trust and knowledge of truth which lead to godliness

and which are based on the certain hope of eternal life. God, who does not lie, promised that life before the beginning of time

Having made his decision, he gave birth to us through a Word that can be relied upon, in order that we should be a kind of firstfruits of all that he created.

chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and set apart by the Spirit for obeying Yeshua the Messiah and for sprinkling with his blood: Grace and shalom be yours in full measure.

God knew him before the founding of the universe, but revealed him in the acharit-hayamim for your sakes.

Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble.

For certain individuals, the ones written about long ago as being meant for this condemnation, have wormed their way in — ungodly people who pervert God’s grace into a license for debauchery and disown our only Master and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.

Everyone living on earth will worship it except those whose names are written in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb slaughtered before the world was founded.