TOPICAL BIBLE
Predestination
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Luke 4:26Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.Luke 4:27And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”Luke 8:10He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’Luke 10:20Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”Luke 17:34I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: one will be taken and the other left.Luke 17:35Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.”Luke 17:36Luke 18:7Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?Luke 22:22Indeed, the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him.”John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.John 6:39And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.John 6:44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.John 6:45It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—John 13:18I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.John 15:19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.John 17:2For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.John 17:6I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.John 17:9I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those You have given Me; for they are Yours.John 21:23Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple would not die. However, Jesus did not say that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I return, what is that to you?”Acts 1:7Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”Acts 2:47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.Acts 3:18But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.Acts 13:48When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.Acts 22:14Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear His voice.Romans 1:6And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.Romans 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.Romans 8:29For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.Romans 8:30And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.Romans 8:33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.Romans 9:7Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”Romans 9:8So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.Romans 9:9For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”Romans 9:10Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.Romans 9:11Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,Romans 9:12not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”Romans 9:13So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”Romans 9:14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!Romans 9:15For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”Romans 9:16So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.Romans 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”Romans 9:18Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.Romans 9:19One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”Romans 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”Romans 9:21Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?Romans 9:22What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?Romans 9:23What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—Romans 9:24including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?Romans 9:25As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”Romans 9:26and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”Romans 9:27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.Romans 9:28For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”Romans 9:29It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”Romans 9:30What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;Romans 9:31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.Romans 9:32Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,