Quotes about Predestination
Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.
— Ecclesiastes 6:10
I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
— Isaiah 46:10
Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’
— Isaiah 48:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
— Jeremiah 1:5
“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
— John 6:44
They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
— Acts 4:28
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
— Romans 8:29
And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
— Romans 8:30
Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
— Romans 9:11
Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
— Romans 9:18
One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
— Romans 9:19
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
— Ephesians 1:4