Bible Verses About Election
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for election, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,583 votes, led by John 15:16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Election
John 15:16302 votes
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.
Ephesians 1:4-5263 votes
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:
Ephesians 1:4223 votes
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:
Acts 13:48218 votes
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.
Romans 8:28-30217 votes
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
2 Thessalonians 2:13201 votes
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:
2 Timothy 1:9190 votes
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
John 6:37176 votes
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
John 6:44159 votes
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Revelation 13:8155 votes
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Romans 9:16154 votes
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Matthew 22:14146 votes
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Mark 13:20135 votes
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
Ephesians 2:8-9119 votes
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
1 Peter 1:2115 votes
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.
Romans 8:29-30109 votes
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.
Romans 9:11108 votes
(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;)
Titus 1:1107 votes
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
Mark 13:27102 votes
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Romans 8:29102 votes
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.
Romans 8:33102 votes
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
Ephesians 1:11102 votes
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:
Luke 10:2299 votes
All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
1 Peter 1:2097 votes
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
John 17:996 votes
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
What does the Bible say about election?
Readers most often cite John 15:16 on the subject of election. Across 8,583 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 1:4-5, Ephesians 1:4, Acts 13:48. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.