Acts 4:28
Yet only to do what thou, by thy power and of thy own will, didst long ago destine to be done.
1 Corinthians 1:26-29
Look at the facts of your Call, Brothers. There are not many among you who are wise, as men reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;
Ephesians 1:11
In him, I say, for by our union with him we became God's Heritage, having from the first been destined for this in the intention of him who, in all that happens, is carrying out his own fixed purpose;
Ephesians 3:11
In accordance with that purpose which runs through all the ages and which he has now accomplished in Jesus, the Christ, our Master.
James 4:6
No; the gift that God gives is for a nobler end; and that is why it is said--'God is opposed to the haughty, but gives help to the humble.'