41 Bible Verses about election, to salvation
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As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love:
And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,
I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion. Surely then, not of him Willing, nor of him running, but of God commiserating. For the writing says to Pharaoh, That for this same have I raised thee up, so that I might show in thee my power, and so that my name might be announced in all the earth.read more.
Surely then, whom he will he commiserates, and whom he will he hardens. Thou wilt then say to me, Why does he yet blame For who has withstood his will? Surely, O man, who art thou replying against God? Shall the formation say to him having formed, Why hest thou made me so Or has not the potter power over the clay, of the same mixture truly to make one vessel for honour, and one for dishonour And if God, willing anger to be shown, and his power to be made known, endured in much long suffering the vessels of anger put in proper order for destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory Whom he also called us, not only from the Jews, but also of the nations?
I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not in Elias, what says the writing? how he addresses God against Israel, saying, Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul.read more.
But what say to him the intimations of divine will I have left to myself seven thousand men, who bent not the knee to Baal. So then also in the time now has been a remnant according to the election of grace. And if to grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. And if of works, it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
And he will say, I will cause all my good to pass by before thee, and I called upon the name of Jehovah before thee; and I compassionated whom I will compassionate, and I pitied whom I will pity.
was sought by them they asked not; I was found by them not seeking me: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation not calling upon my name.
The word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my word. And I shall go down to the potter's house, and behold him doing a work upon the stone.read more.
And the vessel which he made was destroyed as clay in the hand of the potter: and he turned back, and he will make another vessel as was right in the eyes of the potter to make. And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, As this potter shall I not be able to do to you, O house of Israel? says Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the hand of the potter, thus are ye in my hand, O house of Israel. The moment I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to tear down, and to destroy: And that nation which I spake against it turned back from its evil, and I lamented for the evil which I proposed to do to it. And the moment I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant: And it did evil in mine eyes not to hear to my voice, and I lamented for the good which I said to do well to it And now, say now to the men of Judah, and concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: Behold, I will form evil against you, and purpose a purpose against you; turn ye back now each from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. And they said, We shall despair; for after our purposes we will go, and we will do each the stubbornness of his evil heart
Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.
I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.
And not only; but also Rebecca, having coition of one, Isaac our father; (For not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that according to choice the purpose of God might remain, not of works, but of him calling;) It was said to her, That the greater shall serve the less.read more.
As has been written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated.
For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,
Thou thyself Jehovah the God who chose in Abram, and thou broughtest him from Ur of the Chaldees, and didst set his name Abraham. And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee, and thou didst cut out a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perezzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give to his seed: and thou wilt set up thy words, for thou art just:
And he will say to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee from Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it. And he will say, My Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?
For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.
And if ye of Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born: But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong; And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:read more.
That no flesh might boast before him. And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness: That, as it has been written, Let him boasting, boast in the Lord.
Not for your multitude did Jehovah delight in you above all the peoples, and will he choose you, for ye were few more than all the peoples. For Jehovah loves you and watches the oath which he sware to your fathers: Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and he will redeem thee from the house of servants, from the house of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Thou shalt not say in thy heart in Jehovah thy God's thrusting them out from before thee, saying, For my justice Jehovah brought me forth to possess this land; and for the injustice of these nations Jehovah dispossessed them from before thee. Not for thy justice and for the straightness of thy heart thou goest in to possess this land, but for the injustice of these nations Jehovah thy God dispossesses them from before thee, and order to lift up the word which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob. And know thou that not for thy justice did Jehovah thy God five to thee this good land to possess it; for thou a people of a hard neck.
Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?
And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth: To which he called you by our good news, to the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins,
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God: Not of works, lest any one should boast. For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,
Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures.
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the consecration of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.
For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren. And whom he before determined, these he also called: and whom he called, these he also justified: and whom he justified, these he also glorified.
Knowing, brethren beloved, of God your selection. For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.
All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and he coming to me I will not cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not that I might do my will, but the will of him having sent me. And this is the will of the Father having sent me, that all which he has given me, I should not loose of it, but raise it up in the last day.read more.
And this is the will of him having sent me, that every one seeing the Son, and believing in him, should have eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Truly concerning the good news, enemies for you: and concerning the selection, beloved for the fathers. For the favors and calling of God not causing repentance. For as also ye, when ye were disobedient to God, but now ye have been commiserated by the unbelief of these:read more.
So they now also were disobedient, by your mercy that they also be commiserated. For God shut them all up together in unbelief, that he might commiserate all. O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! his judgments how unsearchable, and his ways not traced out! For who knew the mind of the Lord? or who was his counsel? Or who first gave to him, and it shall be given back to him? For of him, and by him, and to him, all things: to him the glory forever Amen.
Praised be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he having praised us in every spiritual praise in heavenly things in Christ: As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love: Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will,read more.
To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he rendered us acceptable in the beloved. In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace; In which he abounded to us in all wisdom and intelligence; Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself: For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him: In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will: For us to be to the praise of his glory, who before hoped in Christ. In whom ye also, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of solemn promise, Which is the pledge of our inheritance for the redemption of the acquisition, to the praise of his glory.
We return thanks to God always for you all, making remembrance of you in our prayers continually; Remembering your work of faith, and fatigue of love, and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father; Knowing, brethren beloved, of God your selection.
What then shall we say to these? if God with us, who against us? Who truly spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, and how not with him will he freely give us all? Who shall demand payment for the chosen of God? God justifying.read more.
Who, he condemning Christ having died, and rather also raised again, who is at the right hand of God, and who intercedes for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? pressure, or perplexity, or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter. But in all these we obtain a complete victory by him having loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor beginnings, nor powers, nor things having stood, nor things about to be, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given to me, is greater than all; . and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.
As thou gavest him the power of all flesh, that every one which thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life.
Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering; (Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.) And over all these, love, which is the bond of completion.
Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you. These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation. For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence.
And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth: To which he called you by our good news, to the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle.
As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness: (By which the greatest and precious promises are bestowed upon us: that by these ye might be having escaped from the corruption in the world through eager desires.) And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge;read more.
And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love. For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins. Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble: For so shall an entrance be furnished richly to you in addition into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
For this I endure all things for the chosen, that they also might attain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
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