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Quote from The 1689 London Confession of Faith
Ephesians 1:4-6
4.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:
5.Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6.To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved
Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven,
and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Romans 9:10-14
10.And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11.(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;) 12.It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13.As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14.What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
2 Timothy 1:9 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,
Romans 8:28-30
28.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.
29.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.
30.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.
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.
And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
1 Peter 1:2 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 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Matthew 24:31 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.
Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
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