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Predestination The Calvinist belief that God decides a person's eternal destiny in advance and that man has no free will to change that destiny.
PREDESTINED: Ephesians chapter 1; Heb 5:8-9; Gal 3:26-27; Rom 1:16; 1 Pet 1:17; Rom 2:11; Acts 10:34; 2 Pet 3:9
Key KJV Scriptures:
Romans 8:28-30; Ephesians 1:3-14; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
159 indexed verses · Showing 1–40. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Genesis 21:12 (KJV)
And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Genesis 21:13 (KJV)
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Exodus 9:16 (KJV)
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
Exodus 33:19 (KJV)
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
Deuteronomy 4:37 (KJV)
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 7:7 (KJV)
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Deuteronomy 7:8 (KJV)
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:15 (KJV)
Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 32:8 (KJV)
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Joshua 11:20 (KJV)
For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Judges 14:4 (KJV)
But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
1 Samuel 2:25 (KJV)
If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.
1 Samuel 12:22 (KJV)
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
1 Kings 12:15 (KJV)
Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings 20:42 (KJV)
And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.
2 Kings 19:25 (KJV)
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2 Chronicles 6:6 (KJV)
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 22:7 (KJV)
And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
2 Chronicles 25:20 (KJV)
But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.
Nehemiah 9:7 (KJV)
Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
Nehemiah 9:8 (KJV)
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
Job 23:13 (KJV)
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Job 23:14 (KJV)
For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
Psalms 33:12 (KJV)
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Psalms 65:4 (KJV)
Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
Psalms 78:67 (KJV)
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psalms 78:68 (KJV)
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms 78:70 (KJV)
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalms 78:71 (KJV)
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
Psalms 78:72 (KJV)
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms 105:17 (KJV)
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Psalms 105:18 (KJV)
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
Psalms 105:19 (KJV)
Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
Psalms 105:20 (KJV)
The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
Psalms 105:21 (KJV)
He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
Psalms 105:22 (KJV)
To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
Psalms 135:4 (KJV)
For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
Proverbs 16:4 (KJV)
The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Isaiah 44:1 (KJV)
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
Isaiah 44:2 (KJV)
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
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