60 Bible Verses about Foreknowledge

Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up."

Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak."

but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but my Father only.

But of that day or the hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Diaspora in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that the Messiah should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD. His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he did not open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he did not open his mouth. He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people? They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

"Men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know, him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

"For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake,

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

The LORD has made everything for its own end?yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

God did not reject his people, which he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

He who believes in him is not judged. He who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you?unless you believed in vain.

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice. Do not harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you."

Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.' But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."read more.
Jesus said to him, "Truly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."

Jesus said to them, "All of you will fall away, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.' However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended, yet I will not."read more.
Jesus said to him, "Truly I tell you, that today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times."

He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."

Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied me three times.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is near. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished.

For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: 'He was numbered with the transgressors.' For that which concerns me has an end."

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You are not all clean."

You heard how I told you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went forth, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"

After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. He will send out his angels with a great trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

"But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?"