Bible Verses About Predestination

Hath not the potter power of the clay to make of the same lumpe one vessell to honour, and another vnto dishonour?

What and if God would, to shewe his wrath, and to make his power knowen, suffer with long patience the vessels of wrath, prepared to destruction?

And that hee might declare the riches of his glory vpon the vessels of mercy, which hee hath prepared vnto glory?

Euen vs whome hee hath called, not of of the Iewes onely, but also of the Gentiles,

As he sayth also in Osee, I will call them, My people, which were not my people: and her, Beloued, which was not beloued.

And it shalbe in the place where it was said vnto them, Ye are not my people, that there they shalbe called, The children of the liuing God.

Also Esaias cryeth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel were as the sand of the sea, yet shall but a remnant be saued.

For he wil make his account, and gather it into a short summe with righteousnes: for the Lord will make a short count in the earth.

And as Esaias sayde before, Except the Lord of hostes had left vs a seede, we had bene made as Sodom, and had bene like to Gomorrha.

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles which folowed not righteousnes, haue attained vnto righteousnes, euen the righteousnes which is of faith.

But Israel which followed the Lawe of righteousnes, could not arteine vnto the Law of righteousnes.

Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the workes of the Lawe: for they haue stumbled at the stumbling stone,

As it is written, Beholde, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone, and a rocke to make men fall: and euery one that beleeueth in him, shall not be ashamed.

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

What then? Israel hath not obtained that he sought: but the election hath obteined it, and the rest haue bene hardened,

According as it is written, God hath giuen them the spirit of slumber: eyes that they should not see, and eares that they should not heare vnto this day.

For brethren, you see your calling, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called.

But God hath chosen the foolish thinges of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weake thinges of the worlde, to confound the mightie things,

And vile things of the worlde and thinges which are despised, hath God chosen, and thinges which are not, to bring to nought thinges that are,

That no flesh shoulde reioyce in his presence.

But we speake the wisedome of God in a mysterie, euen the hid wisedom, which God had determined before the world, vnto our glory.

But when it pleased God (which had separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace)

As hee hath chosen vs in him, before the foundation of the worlde, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in loue:

Who hath predestinate vs, to be adopted through Iesus Christ in him selfe, according to the good pleasure of his will,

And hath opened vnto vs the mysterie of his will according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed in him,