But God said to Abraham, "Do not be concerned about the boy and your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac.

However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you My power and to make My name known in all the earth.

He said, "I will cause all My goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

Yet the Lord was devoted to your fathers and loved them. He chose their descendants after them-[He chose] you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance and divided the human race, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the people of Israel.

For it was the Lord's intention to harden their hearts, so that they would engage Israel in battle, be completely destroyed without mercy, and be annihilated, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord- the people He has chosen to be His own possession!

How happy is the one You choose and bring near to live in Your courts! We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.

He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel as His treasured possession.

"Be silent before Me, islands! And let peoples renew their strength. Let them approach, then let them testify; let us come together for the trial. Who has stirred him up from the east? He calls righteousness to his feet. The Lord hands nations over to him, and he subdues kings. He makes [them] like dust [with] his sword, like wind-driven stubble [with] his bow. read more. He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet. Who has performed and done [this], calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am the first, and with the last-I am He." The islands see and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and arrive. Each one helps the other, and says to another, "Take courage!" The craftsman encourages the metalworker; the one who flattens with the hammer [supports] the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good." He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over. But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, My friend- I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said to you: You are My servant; I have chosen you and not rejected you. Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will hold on to you with My righteous right hand.

I chose you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart before you were born. I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

Unless the Lord limited those days, no one would survive. But He limited those days because of the elect, whom He chose.

For the Son of Man will go away as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!"

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

for You gave Him authority over all flesh; so He may give eternal life to all You have given Him.

I have revealed Your name to the men You gave Me from the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

I pray for them. I am not praying for the world but for those You have given Me, because they are Yours.

You have revealed the paths of life to me; You will fill me with gladness in Your presence.

But what God predicted through the mouth of all the prophets-that His Messiah would suffer-He has fulfilled in this way.

to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.

to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.

From one man He has made every nation of men to live all over the earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live,

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.

(for though they had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to election might stand,

So then, He shows mercy to whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.

Or has the potter no right over His clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.

He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,

In Him we were also made His inheritance, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

This is according to the purpose of the ages, which He made in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord,

rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,

holding to the faithful message as taught, so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and to refute those who contradict it.

Though He was delivered up according to God's determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose. For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. read more. And those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

But when God, who from my mother's womb set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased

for He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will, read more. to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.

In Him we were also made His inheritance, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will, so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.

He is the down payment of our inheritance, for the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

This is according to the purpose of the ages, which He made in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord,

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

who has 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 to us in Christ Jesus before time began.

He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the times for you

All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss and go to destruction. Those who live on the earth whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will be astounded when they see the beast that was, and is not, and will be present [again].

Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfill to Abraham what He promised him."

Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result-the survival of many people.

And I promised you: You will inherit their land, since I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God who set you apart from the peoples.

You are to be holy to Me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine.

Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba-as numerous as the sand by the sea-be gathered to you and that you personally go into battle. Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. Not even one will be left of all the men with him.

saying: Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will leave this life. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Praise the name of the Lord.

Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones; praise from the upright is beautiful.

"Stop [your fighting]-and know that I am God, exalted among the nations, exalted on the earth." The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah

Our God is in heaven and does whatever He pleases.

The Lord does whatever He pleases in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the depths.

A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.

A king's heart is a water channel in the Lord's hand: He directs it wherever He chooses.

The Lord of Hosts has sworn: As I have planned, so it will be; as I have purposed it, so it will happen.

The Lord of Hosts has sworn: As I have planned, so it will be; as I have purposed it, so it will happen. I will break Assyria in My land; I will tread him down on My mountain. Then his yoke will be taken from them, and his burden will be removed from their shoulders. read more. This is the plan prepared for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out against all the nations. The Lord of Hosts Himself has planned it; therefore, who can stand in its way? It is His hand that is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

The Lord of Hosts Himself has planned it; therefore, who can stand in its way? It is His hand that is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Now this is what the Lord says- the One who created you, Jacob, and the One who formed you, Israel- "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.

everyone called by My name and created for My glory. I have formed him; indeed, I have made him."

I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: My plan will take place, and I will do all My will. I call a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far country. Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about. I have planned it; I will also do it.

All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does what He wants with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can hold back His hand or say to Him, "What have You done?"

If a ram's horn is blown in a city, aren't people afraid? If a disaster occurs in a city, hasn't the Lord done it?

Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's consent. But even the hairs of your head have all been counted.

Though He was delivered up according to God's determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

You have revealed the paths of life to me; You will fill me with gladness in Your presence.

to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place. And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your message with complete boldness,

which have been known from long ago.

For it was the Holy Spirit's decision-and ours-to put no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

From one man He has made every nation of men to live all over the earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live,

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

As it is written: Because of You we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not! For He tells Moses: I will show mercy to whom I show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. read more. So then it does not depend on human will or effort, but on God who shows mercy. For the Scripture tells Pharaoh: For this reason I raised you up: so that I may display My power in you, and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

For the Scripture tells Pharaoh: For this reason I raised you up: so that I may display My power in you, and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth. So then, He shows mercy to whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills. read more. You will say to me, therefore, "Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?" But who are you-anyone who talks back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

But who are you-anyone who talks back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" Or has the potter no right over His clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

Or has the potter no right over His clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor? And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?

And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?

And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction? And [what if] He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory-

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the Elijah section-how he pleads with God against Israel?

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?

for He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love

for He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love

for He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,

He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,

He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure that He planned in Him

In Him we were also made His inheritance, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

In Him we were also made His inheritance, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

In Him we were also made His inheritance, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you previously walked according to this worldly age, according to the ruler of the atmospheric domain, the spirit now working in the disobedient. read more. We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and by nature we were children under wrath, as the others were also. But God, who is abundant in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us, made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. By grace you are saved! He also raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace in [His] kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift-

Husbands, love your wives, just as also Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her, to make her holy, cleansing her in the washing of water by the word. read more. He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and blameless.

rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions you were taught, either by our message or by our letter.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ: To the temporary residents of the Dispersion in the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen

A stone that causes men to stumble, and a rock that trips them up. They stumble by disobeying the message; they were destined for this.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by His blood, and made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father-to Him be the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Our Lord and God, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You have created all things, and because of Your will they exist and were created.

And they cried out in a loud voice: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!

Then I looked, and there on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with Him were 144,000 who had His name and His Father's name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of cascading waters and like the rumbling of loud thunder. The sound I heard was also like harpists playing on their harps. read more. They sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, but no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. These are the ones not defiled with women, for they have kept their virginity. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They were redeemed from the human race as the firstfruits for God and the Lamb. No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless. Then I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the eternal gospel to announce to the inhabitants of the earth-to every nation, tribe, language, and people.