Predestination is a theological concept that refers to the divine foreordaining or foreknowledge of all that will happen, particularly with regard to the salvation of some and not others. This doctrine is rooted in the sovereignty of God and His eternal purpose. The following scriptures provide insight into the biblical basis for the concept of predestination:

1. Ephesians 1:4-5 : "For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will." This passage emphasizes God's sovereign choice and His loving purpose in predestining believers to be His children.

2. Romans 8:29-30 : "For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified." Here, the Apostle Paul outlines a sequence of divine actions, beginning with foreknowledge and culminating in glorification, underscoring the certainty and purpose of God's plan.

3. 2 Timothy 1:9 : "He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began." This verse highlights that God's calling and salvation are based on His purpose and grace, established before the creation of time.

4. Acts 13:48 : "When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed." This account from the early church illustrates the concept of divine appointment to eternal life, resulting in belief.

5. John 6:44 : "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day." Jesus speaks of the necessity of the Father's drawing for one to come to faith, indicating divine initiative in the process of salvation.

6. John 15:16 : "You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you." This statement by Jesus to His disciples underscores the primacy of His choice in their calling and mission.

7. 1 Peter 1:1-2 : "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect, exiles scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood." Peter addresses believers as the elect, chosen by God's foreknowledge, emphasizing the Trinitarian work in their salvation.

8. Revelation 13:8 : "And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was slain." This verse speaks of the book of life, indicating a divine record established from the foundation of the world.

These scriptures collectively present a picture of God's sovereign and purposeful plan in predestination, highlighting His foreknowledge, calling, and grace in the salvation of believers.Genesis 21:12,13
And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the lad, and because of your female slave; in all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac shall your seed be called.
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Exodus 9:16
And in very deed for this cause have I raised you up, for to show in you my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
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Exodus 33:19
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
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Deuteronomy 4:37
And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
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Deuteronomy 7:7,8
The LORD did not set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:
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Deuteronomy 10:15
Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
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Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
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Joshua 11:20
For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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1 Samuel 12:22
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his people.
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1 Kings 12:15
Why the king listened not to the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
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1 Kings 20:42
And he said to him, Thus said the LORD, Because you have let go out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.
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2 Kings 19:25
Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that you should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
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2 Chronicles 6:6
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
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Job 23:13,14
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.
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Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
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Psalm 65:4
Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach to you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple.
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Psalm 78:67,68,70-72
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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Psalm 105:17-22
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
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Psalm 135:4
For the LORD has chosen Jacob to himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
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Proverbs 16:4
The LORD has made all things for himself: yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
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Isaiah 44:1,2,7
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
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Jeremiah 1:4,5
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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Malachi 1:2,3
I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? said the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
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Matthew 11:25,26
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes.
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Matthew 20:16,23
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
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Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen.
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Matthew 24:22,40,41
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
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Matthew 25:34
Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
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Matthew 26:24
The Son of man goes as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
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Mark 13:20,22
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened the days.
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Mark 14:21
The Son of man indeed goes, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
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Luke 4:25-27
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
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Luke 8:10
And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
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Luke 10:20
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
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Luke 17:34-36
I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
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Luke 18:7
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them?
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Luke 22:22
And truly the Son of man goes, as it was determined: but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!
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John 6:37,39,44,45
All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out.
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John 15:16,19
You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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John 17:2,6,9
As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him.
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John 21:23
Then went this saying abroad among the brothers, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not to him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to you?
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Acts 1:7
And he said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.
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Acts 2:23,39,47
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
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Acts 3:18
But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled.
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Acts 4:28
For to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.
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Acts 13:48
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.
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Acts 17:26
And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
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Acts 22:14
And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you, that you should know his will, and see that Just One, and should hear the voice of his mouth.
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Romans 1:6
Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:
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Romans 8:28-30,33
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.
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Romans 9:7-33
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called.
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Romans 11:5,7,8
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
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1 Corinthians 1:26-29
For you see your calling, brothers, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
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1 Corinthians 2:7
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory:
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Galatians 1:15
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
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Ephesians 1:4,5,9-11
According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
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Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
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Ephesians 3:11
According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
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Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;
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1 Thessalonians 1:4
Knowing, brothers beloved, your election of God.
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1 Thessalonians 2:12
That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.
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2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
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2 Timothy 1:9
Who has 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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Titus 1:1,2
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;
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James 1:18
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
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1 Peter 1:2,20
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.
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2 Peter 1:10
Why the rather, brothers, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
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Jude 1:4
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Revelation 13:8
And all that dwell on 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.
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