Bible Verses About Predestination
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for predestination, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 13,097 votes, led by Ephesians 1:4-5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Predestination
Ephesians 1:4-5545 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 1:5452 votes
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Romans 8:29417 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 8:28-30394 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.
John 15:16380 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.
John 6:44346 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.
2 Timothy 1:9283 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,
Ephesians 1:11269 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:
Proverbs 16:4266 votes
The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
2 Peter 3:9263 votes
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Acts 13:48235 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.
1 Peter 1:20235 votes
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Romans 8:29-30213 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.
Ephesians 1:4199 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:
Revelation 13:8190 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.
1 Peter 1:2189 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.
Jeremiah 1:5171 votes
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Ephesians 1:11-12167 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:
Acts 2:23164 votes
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Matthew 22:14151 votes
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Galatians 1:15150 votes
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
Colossians 3:12138 votes
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Romans 8:33137 votes
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
Titus 1:1133 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;
1 Corinthians 2:7132 votes
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
What does the Bible say about predestination?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 1:4-5 on the subject of predestination. Across 13,097 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 1:5, Romans 8:29, Romans 8:28-30. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.