Bible Verses About Synergism And Free Will

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:

Classic choice-of-life passage.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Core choice text about serving the Lord.

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

Human will contrasted with God’s mercy

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Clear Bible statement on God working in believers.

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

Calls believers to receive grace and not in vain.

Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

Power over own will passage

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

Set before you life and good, death and evil

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

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

If ye be willing and obedient

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

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.

Life and death choice text

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

Voluntary good deed

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

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?

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

Obeyed from the heart

Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

Readiness to will and performance

But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

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.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Shows hard work with God’s grace together.

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Grace and salvation passage

But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

Spirit distributes as He wills

And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Spirit and liberty

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

If anyone wills to do His will

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Free yet not using liberty for vice

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Freedom from slavery passage

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

Slaves of sin / free for righteousness