Biblical references on Predestination and Election

The concept of election is present throughout Scripture, from Creation to the coming of Christ and the present times. God always predetermined what would happen and chose peoples, ministry, apostles and believers to whom to grant grace.

Here are some passages of Scripture in support of predestination.

Of Christ as Messiah

Here is my servant, I will support it; my chosen one of whom I am pleased; I put my spirit on him, he will show righteousness to the nations. (Isaiah 42:1)

In fact it is read in Scripture: "Here, I set a cornerstone in Zion, choice, precious and anyone who believes in it will not be confused ". (1Pietro 2:6)

Good angels

I pray you, before God, to Christ Jesus and the chosen angels, to observe these things without prejudice, and to do nothing with partiality. (1Timoteo 5:21)

Of Israel

For you are a people consecrated to the LORD your God. The Sir, your God, he has chosen you to be his particular treasure among all the peoples who are on the face of the earth (Deuteronomy 7:6)

I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no other God besides me! I have prepared you, although you didn't know me (Isaiah 45:5)

Of ministers

When it was day, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve, to whom he also gave the name of apostles (Luca 6:13)

But the Lord told him: "Go, because he is an instrument that I have chosen to carry my name before the peoples, ai re, and to the children of Israel (proceedings 9:15)

Of the Churches

The church that's in Babylon, elected like you, he greets you. Marco too, my child, he greets you. (1Pietro 5:13)

Of believers

We know, brothers loved by God, your election. (1Tessalonicesi 1:4)

Paolo, servant of God, apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the recognition of the truth that is after piety (Tito 1:1)

Chosen by Christ.

«I'm not talking about all of you; I know the ones I have chosen; but, for Scripture to be fulfilled, “He who eats my bread, he has raised his heel against me”. (Giovanni 13:18)

It is not you who have chosen me, but it is I who chose you, and I have appointed you to go and bear fruit and your fruit to remain; so that everything you ask the Father, in my name, he gives it to you. (Giovanni 15:16)

Elected in Christ.

In him he elected us before the creation of the world so that we might be holy and blameless before him (Ephesians 1:4)

Thepersonal and individual ection.

Since many are called, but few are elected ". (Matteo 22:14)

No one can come to me unless the Father draws him, who sent me; and I will resurrect him on the last day. (Giovanni 6:44)

He added: “The God of our fathers destined you to know his will, to see the Just One and to hear a word from his mouth. (proceedings 22:14)

The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen. (2Giovanni 1:13)

According to God's will.

as, before the twins were born and they did good or bad (so that God's purpose would remain firm, second election (Romans 9:11)

In him we have also been made heirs, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who does everything according to the decision of his own will (Ephesians 1:11)

For those who have made foreknowledge , he too has predestined to conform to the image of his Son, to be the firstborn among many brothers. (Romans 8:29)

elected according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctification of the Spirit, to obey and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ: grace and peace be multiplied to you (1Pietro 1:2)

The eternal election.

In him he elected us before the creation of the world so that we might be holy and blameless before him (Ephesians 1:4)

Sovereign God.

For he saith to Moses: "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.", but of God who shows mercy. (Romans 9:15-16)

but God chose the crazy things of the world to put the wise to shame; God chose the weak things in the world to shame the strong ones (1Corinthians 1:27)

In him we have also been made heirs, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who does everything according to the decision of his own will (Ephesians 1:11)

Double predestination. We must not object to God's choices.

So then he gives mercy to whomever he wills and hardens whomever he wills. You will then tell me: «Because he still reproaches? Because who can resist his will?" Rather, or man, who are you who replies to God? The thing shaped will perhaps tell him who shaped it: "Why did you make me like that?"The potter is perhaps not the master of the clay to make a vase for noble use and another for ignoble use from the same dough? What is there to dispute if God, wanting to show his anger and make his power known, he endured with great patience of the vessels of wrath prepared for perdition, and this to make known the richness of his glory towards the vessels of mercy which he had already prepared for glory,
that is towards us, whom he called not only among the Jews but also among foreigners? (Romans 9:18-24)

Regardless of the merit.

as, before the twins were born and they did good or bad (so that God's purpose would remain firm, second election (Romans 9:11)

It is by grace that you have been saved, by fede; and that not of yourselves:; it is the gift of God. It is not by works, lest any man should boast; (Ephesians 2:8-9)

The grace.

So also in the present, there is a remnant elected by grace. (Romans 11:5)

Written in the sky.

however, do not rejoice because the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice because your names are written in the heavens ". (Luca 10:20)

For the glory of God.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he granted us in his beloved Son (Ephesians 1:6)

Through faith.

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God from the beginning elected you to salvation through sanctification in the Spirit and faith in the truth (2Tessalonicesi 2:13)

Through the sanctification of the Spirit.

elected according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctification of the Spirit, to obey and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ: grace and peace be multiplied to you (1Pietro 1:2)

For adoption.

having predestined us in his love to be adopted through Jesus Christ as his children, according to the benevolent design of his will (Ephesians 1:5)

Out of conformity with Christ.

Because those he foreknew, he also predestined them to conform to the image of his Son, that he may be the firstborn among many brothers; and those whom he predestined he also called; and those he called he also justified; and those he justified he also glorified. (Romans 8:29-30)

For good works.

in fact we are his work, having been created in Christ Jesus to do good works, that God has previously prepared for us to practice (Ephesians 2:10)

For spiritual warfare.

One who goes to war does not get involved in matters of civilian life, if he wants to please the one who enlisted him. (2 Timoteo 2:4)

and this to make known the richness of his glory towards the vessels of mercy which he had already prepared for glory (Romans 9:23)

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Effective Call.

and those whom he predestined he also called; and those he called he also justified; and those he justified he also glorified.(Romans 8:30)

Divine teaching.

I have manifested your name to the men you gave me from the world; they were yours and you gave them to me; ed essi hanno osservato la tua parola. (Giovanni 17:6)

Faith in Christ.

Foreigners, hearing these things, they rejoiced and glorified the Word of God; and all who were ordained to eternal life, they believed. (proceedings 13:48)

God's acceptance.

What then? What Israel seeks, It not got it; while they got the elect; e the rest were hardened (Romans 11:7)

Protection of the elect.

If the Lord hadn't shortened those days, no one would escape; but, because of his elect, he shortened those days. (Marco 13:20)

Vindication of their wrongs.

Therefore God will not do justice to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night? It will be late for them? (Luca 18:07)

All things work together for the good of the elect.

Now we know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, which are named according to his design. (Romans 8:28)

Bliss.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; blessed are the people he has chosen for his inheritance. (Strait 33:12)

Blessed are those who choose and welcome, because he dwells in your courtyards! We will be satisfied with the goods of your home, of the holy things of your temple.(Strait 65:4)

The legacy.

I will bring out a seed from Jacob and an heir of my mountains from Judah; my chosen ones will own the country, my servants will live there. (Isaiah 65:9)

for an incorruptible inheritance, unblemished and unalterable. It is kept in heaven for you, that by the power of God you are guarded through faith, for the salvation that's about to be revealed in the end times. (1 Pietro 1:4-5)

Behavior of the elect.

Get dressed, therefore, as God's elect, saints and loved ones, of feelings of mercy, of benevolence, of humility, di mansuetudine, of patience. (Colossesi 3:12)

therefore, brothers, strive ever more to make your vocation and election secure; because, in this way, you will never stumble. (2Pietro 1:10)

Certainty of being saints

We know, brothers loved by God, your election. (1Tessalonicesi 1:4)

Election of:

Isaac

But God said to Abraham: "Do not grieve for the boy, nor your maidservant; you consent to whatever Sarah tells you, because Isaac's descendants will come out that will take your name. (Genesis 21:12)

Abraham

You are the LORD God you chose Abraham, you brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and you gave him the name of Abraham (Nehemiah 9:7)

Zorobabel

That day”, says the LORD of hosts, “I'll get you, Zorobabel, son of Sealtiel, my servant”, says the LORD, “and I'll keep you like a seal, because I have chosen you”, dice il SIGNORE degli eserciti». (Haggai 2:23)

Apostles

«I'm not talking about all of you; I know the ones I have chosen; but, for Scripture to be fulfilled, “He who eats my bread, he has raised his heel against me”. (Giovanni 13:18)

If you were of the world, the world would love what is his; for you are not of the world, but I have chosen you in the middle of the world, therefore the world hates you. (Giovanni 15:19)

Jacob

which depends not on works, but from him who calls) she was told: "The major will serve the minor"; as it is written: "I loved Jacob and I hated Esau."(Romans 9:12-13)

Rufus

Red Salute, the elect in the Lord and his mother, which is mine too (Romans 16:13)

Paolo

But God who had chosen me from my mother's womb and called me through his grace, he was pleased (Galati 1:15)