John 15:16
You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.
John 19:11
Jesus answered him, "You would have no power at all over me, if it had not been given to you from above. So the man who betrayed me to you is more guilty than you."
Romans 9:16
So one's destiny does not depend on his own willing or strenuous actions but on God's having mercy on him.
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So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
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It was not
John 15:16
You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.
John 19:11
Jesus answered him, "You would have no power at all over me, if it had not been given to you from above. So the man who betrayed me to you is more guilty than you."
Romans 9:16
So one's destiny does not depend on his own willing or strenuous actions but on God's having mercy on him.
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Philemon 1:15
For perhaps it was for this reason that he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,