Bible Verses About Predetermination
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for predetermination, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,290 votes, led by Ephesians 1:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Predetermination
Ephesians 1:597 votes
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Ephesians 1:1183 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:
Romans 8:2980 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.
John 6:4473 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.
Romans 8:29-3065 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.
John 3:1660 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2 Peter 3:959 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 2:2349 votes
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
1 Peter 1:249 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.
Proverbs 16:445 votes
The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
John 15:1645 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.
Romans 8:28-3045 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.
Romans 8:2844 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.
Luke 18:742 votes
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Acts 4:2842 votes
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Romans 8:3342 votes
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
1 Corinthians 2:740 votes
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Ephesians 1:1-2340 votes
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 1:440 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 1:4-539 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:
Matthew 24:3138 votes
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Titus 1:138 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;
Matthew 24:2237 votes
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
John 6:3737 votes
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
Colossians 3:1237 votes
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
What does the Bible say about predetermination?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 1:5 on the subject of predetermination. Across 3,290 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 1:11, Romans 8:29, John 6:44. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.