22 Bible Verses about Predestination, Spiritual Events
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At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children. Yes, I thank you, Father, for choosing to have it so.
So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last."
And this good news of the kingdom will be preached all over the world, to testify to all the heathen, and then the end will come.
for false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.
When they had finished making sport of him, they took off the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. Then they took him out of the city to crucify him.
And he said, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but they are given to others in the form of figures, so that they may look and yet not see, and hear and yet not understand.
All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,
just as you have done in giving him power over all mankind, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
He said to them, "It is not for you to know times and dates which the Father has fixed by his own authority,
constantly praising God and respected by all the people. And every day the Lord added people who were saved to their number.
For consider, brothers, what happened when God called you. Not many of you were what men call wise, not many of you were influential, not many were of high birth. But it was what the world calls foolish that God chose to put the wise to shame with, and it was what the world calls weak that God chose to shame its strength with, and it was what the world calls low and insignificant and unreal that God chose to nullify its realities,read more.
so that in his presence no human being might have anything to boast of.
But it is a mysterious divine wisdom that we impart, hitherto kept secret, and destined by God before the world began for our glory. It is a wisdom unknown to any of the authorities of this world, for otherwise they would never have crucified our glorious Lord.
Through him he chose us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in his sight in love. He foreordained us to become his sons through Jesus Christ, in fulfilment of his generous purpose,
He has given us perfect insight into his secret purpose and understanding of it, in following out the design he planned to carry out in Christ, and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ??11 the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,
For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.
so that the many-sided wisdom of God may now through the church be made known to the rulers and authorities in heaven, fulfilling the eternal purpose which God carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord.
and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.
For we know, brothers whom God so loves, that he has chosen you, for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction??ou know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.
We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth, and called you to it through our preaching of the good news, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,
Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.
