'Decided' in the Bible

So her husband Joseph, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly.

So they decided to use the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial ground for foreigners.

Then Jesus went up on a hillside and called to himself those whom he had decided on, and they approached him.

I, too, have carefully investigated everything from the beginning and have decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

Simon answered, “The one, I take it, for whom he forgave more.” Jesus said to him, “You have decided correctly.”

So Pilate decided to grant their demand

The next day He decided to leave for Galilee. Jesus found Philip and told him, “Follow Me!”

(His parents said these [things] because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him [to be] Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

Therefore the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus also

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

“As he was approaching the age of 40, he decided to visit his brothers, the Israelites.

So all of the disciples decided they would send a contribution to the brothers living in Judea, as they were able,

Paul and Barnabas disagreed greatly and debated with them, so it was determined that Paul and Barnabas and some of the others from their group would go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders [and confer with them] concerning this issue.

"Therefore, I have decided that we should not trouble these gentiles who are turning to God.

Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men among the brothers.

we have unanimously decided to select men and send them to you along with our dearly loved Barnabas and Paul,

[However, Silas decided to stay there.]

Now while they were passing through the cities, they were delivering the decrees which had been decided upon by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem, for them to observe.

After these things had happened, Paul decided to go through Macedonia and Achaia and then to go on to Jerusalem. "After I have gone there," he told them, "I must also see Rome."

But if you want something else, it must be decided in a legal assembly.

and stayed there for three months. When he was about to sail for Syria, a plot was initiated against him by the Jews, so he decided to go back through Macedonia.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so he would not have to spend time in Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, for the day of Pentecost.

But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.”

Now I realized that he had not done anything deserving of death, but when he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.

Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to set sail from there, hoping somehow to reach Phoenix, a harbor on Crete open to the southwest and northwest, and to winter there.

When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.

for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

For though I am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present.

I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

If therefore you have things belonging to this life which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the Church--is it *they* whom you make your judges?

But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep his own virgin, will do well.

But now I mean his conscience, not your own. "Why, on what ground," you may object, "is the question of my liberty of action to be decided by a conscience not my own?

But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

Now I decided not to pay you another painful visit.

Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Therefore, when we could stand it no longer, we decided to remain alone in Athens

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

I heard the angel of the waters say:You are righteous,who is and who was, the Holy One,for You have decided these things.