Bible Verses About Did The Early Christians Teach Calvinism

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Clear Bible command to choose life.

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Open invitation to whoever will come.

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Clear predestination wording.

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Strong predestination language with divine purpose.

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Explicit election text in Romans 9.

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Election in 1 Peter tied to foreknowledge and obedience.

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

Conditioned on willingness to do God's will.

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Whosoever believeth should not perish

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Direct Bible passage: set before you life and good, death and evil

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Lose life for Christ and save it

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Bible text on obedience to leaders as a proof of submission language

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Choice leading to obedience or sin.

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

Willing and obedient language fits the same theme.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

Same teaching in Mark

He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Love or hate life tied to eternal life

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

Direct Bible passage: the way of life and the way of death

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Belief and obedience tied to life

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Foreknowledge and predestination text often paired with election debates.

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Classic predestination chain in Romans 8.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Bible text on humility and grace

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Used as a text some writers connect to chosen living.

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

Subjection for conscience sake

But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

Voluntary good deed passage

Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

Short election phrase from Paul.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Chosen to bear fruit

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Predestination text that creates tension with free-will passages.

And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.

God chose Paul to know his will