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Bible Verses About Reprobation And Double Predestination

Early Christian writers did talk about predestination, election, and the punishment of the wicked, but the case for a clear early doctrine of double predestination is thin. Origen and Novatian speak about God’s foreknowledge and predestination, while Irenaeus, Cyprian, and Peter of Alexandria stress judgment for sin, repentance, and God’s mercy. The strongest direct witnesses here lean more toward election, foreknowledge, and human accountability than toward a fully developed double-predestination system.

There are also a few later or weaker lines that sound like reprobation, but they are not enough to make the teaching broad or uniform across the early writers.

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What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

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And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

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Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

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But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

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For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

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Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

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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.

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For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

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For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

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

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For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

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But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

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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.

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(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;)

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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:

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And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

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

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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.

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For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

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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.

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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:

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Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

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As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

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And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

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Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

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But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

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That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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