Bible Verses About Predestination

Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?

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

That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory?

Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles.

As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy.

And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.

And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.

But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.

As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.

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

What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded.

As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.

For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.

But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise: and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong.

And the base things of the world and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are:

That no flesh should glory in his sight.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:

But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace,

As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:

That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,