Predestination

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Proverbs 16:4 OT

  Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

• Isaiah 44:1 OT

  Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

• Isaiah 44:2 OT

  This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

• Isaiah 44:7 OT

  Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

• Jeremiah 1:4 OT

  Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

• Jeremiah 1:5 OT

  “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

• Malachi 1:2 OT

  “I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;

• Malachi 1:3 OT

  but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

• Matthew 11:25 NT

  At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

• Matthew 11:26 NT

  Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

• Matthew 20:16 NT

  So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

• Matthew 20:23 NT

  He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

• Matthew 22:14 NT

  For many are called, but few chosen.”

• Matthew 24:22 NT

  Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

• Matthew 24:40 NT

  Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left.

• Matthew 24:41 NT

  Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left.

• Matthew 25:34 NT

  Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

• Matthew 26:24 NT

  The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

• Mark 13:20 NT

  Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

• Mark 13:22 NT

  For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

• Mark 14:21 NT

  For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

• Luke 4:25-27 NT

  But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the…

• Luke 8:10 NT

  He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

• Luke 10:20 NT

  Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”