Bible Verses About "What Is Unconditional Election"
Unconditional election is God's sovereign choice to save specific individuals before the foundation of the world, based entirely on His grace and not on any foreseen merit or faith.
Unconditional election is God's sovereign choice to save specific individuals before the foundation of the world, based entirely on His grace and not on any foreseen merit or faith.
"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 Unconditional Election?" 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;)"
"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,"
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