Bible Verses About The Providence Of God And Human Freedom

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.

Bible passage on foreknowledge and obedience.

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

Raises the foreknowledge/fault question, but is more an objection text than a passage.

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

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

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:

Predestination passage, related but more about election than freedom.

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

Related Romans 9 text on mercy and hardening.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

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

Related Romans 11 text on mercy.

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.

Related predestination text.

Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

Possible text mix-up; the excerpt does not match Acts 15:18 clearly.

A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

Bible passage on the Lord establishing steps.

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

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For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Bible passage on God’s foreordained plan and human act.

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Bible passage joining definite plan and human guilt.

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:

Bible passage on being chosen before the foundation of the world.

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

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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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The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

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The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

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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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And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

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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;)

Bible passage on election by God's call, not works.

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

Bible passage warning not to misuse liberty.

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

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He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

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And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

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God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

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