Bible Verses About "What Is Election in the Bible"
Election is God's sovereign choice of certain individuals for salvation and service, based not on human merit but on His own gracious purpose in Christ.
Election is God's sovereign choice of certain individuals for salvation and service, based not on human merit but on His own gracious purpose in Christ.
"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: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will." — Ephesians 1:4-5 (KJV)
KJV Verses That Answer This Question
The Scriptures below are gathered specifically to address "What Is Election in the Bible?" Each is quoted in the King James Version with a link to its full chapter.
"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: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will."
"(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;)"
"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."
"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth."
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