Bible Verses About Predestination

praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil;

to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe--as many as were appointed to life age-during;

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings--

and he said, The God of our fathers did choose thee beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth,

among whom are also ye, the called of Jesus Christ;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.

Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous,

nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children, but--`in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

that is, the children of the flesh--these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

for the word of promise is this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

And not only so , but also Rebecca, having conceived by one--Isaac our father--

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her--

`The greater shall serve the less;'

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be!

for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'

so, then--not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

for the Writing saith to Pharaoh--`For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'

nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it , Why me didst thou make thus?