22 Bible Verses about Predestination, Spiritual Events

At that season Jesus, answering, said, "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, because Thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and didst reveal them to babes. Yea, Father, because so it was well-pleasing before Thee!

So the last shall be first, and the first last.

And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the inhabited earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then shall the end come.

for there will arise false Christs and false prophets; and they will give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

And, when they mocked Him, they took from Him the purple, and put on Him His own garments. And they lead Him out to crucify Him.

And He said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables; that, seeing, they may not see, and, hearing, they may not understand.

All that the Father giveth to Me shall come to Me; and him who comes to Me I will in no wise cast out;

even as Thou gavest Him authority over all flesh, that to all Whom Thou hast given Him He should give eternal life.

upon hope of eternal life which God, Who cannot lie, promised before eternal times,

He said to them, "It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father placed in His own authority;

praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to them daily those who were being saved.

For ye behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are chosen; but God chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong; and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;read more.
that no flesh should glory before God.

but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery??he hidden wisdom??hich God predestined before the ages for our glory; which no one of the rulers of this age has known; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

according as He chose us in Him before the founding of a world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love; having predestinated us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him, for a dispensation of the fulness of the seasons, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth; in Him, in Whom we also were made a heritage, having been predestinated according to the purpose of Him Who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will;

for we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.

in order that now might be made known to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, according to a purpose of the ages which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

and having put on the new man who is being renewed unto full knowledge, according to the image of Him Who created him;

knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election; because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you, for your sake.

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord; because God, from the beginning, chose you to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of truth; unto which He called you through our Gospel, to an obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose, and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before eternal ages,

Having willed it, He brought us forth with a word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of His creatures.