Elect
Verses
that call Christians "the elect" or say they are elected by God
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Mat. 11:27 - "...no
one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses
to reveal him."
John
5:21 - "... the Son gives life to whom he is
pleased to give it."
John
6:37
- all that the Father gives to Jesus will come to Jesus
John
6:44
- no one can come to Christ unless the Father draws him
John
6:65
- no one can come to Christ unless the Father has enabled him
John
17:2
- Jesus gives eternal life to all those whom the Father gives Him
Acts
13:48
- "...all who were appointed for eternal life believed"
Rom.
8:29-30
- "...those God foreknew he also predestined..."
Rom.
9 - Paul thoroughly describes the reasoning
behind predestination
Eph.
1:4-5
- "...In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons
through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will."
Eph.
1:11 - "In him we were also chosen, having been
predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in
conformity with the purpose of his will,"
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John 6:37-39 - Jesus
will not lose anyone whom the Father has given Him
John
10:5 - Jesus' sheep will never follow a stranger
John
10:28 - no one can snatch the sheep out of Christ's hand
1 Cor.
1:8
- "He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on
the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."
2 Cor.
1:21
- "Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ..."
Philip.
1:6
- "being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will
carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."
1
Thess. 5:23-24 - "...May your whole spirit, soul and body
be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The
one who calls you is faithful and he will do it."
1 Pet.
1:5 - to "God's elect," Peter says, "you, who are shielded
by God's power until
the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last
time."
Jude
1:1 - "...To those who have been called, who are loved by
God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ."
Jude
1:24 - "To him who is able to keep you from falling and to
present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great
joy."
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Heb. 6:4-6 - "It is
impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted
the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who
have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the
coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to
repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God
all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace."
2 Pet.
2:20-22 - "If
they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they
are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It
would have been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on
the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the
proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is
washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud." |
Verses about
Christians falling away from the faith
Luke
7:23
- "Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of
me."
Luke
8:13 - some fall away during the "time of testing"
Luke
14:34
- "Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made
salty again?"
John
15:10
- Jesus said, "If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love"
1
Tim. 1:19
- some have "shipwrecked their faith"
1
Tim. 5:15 - some have "already turned to follow Satan"
1
Tim. 6:21
- some have "wandered from the faith"
2
Tim. 2:18
- some have "wandered away from the truth. They say that the
resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of
some."
2
Pet. 2:15
- some have "left the straight way"
2 Pet.
3:17
- Peter warns not to "fall from your secure position"
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Rom.
11:21-22 - "For if God did not spare the natural
branches, he will
not spare you either. Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of
God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that
you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off."
Heb.
10:26-31 - "If we deliberately keep on sinning after we
have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is
left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging
fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected
the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three
witnesses. How much more severely do you think a man deserves
to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has
treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified
him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him
who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord
will judge his people." It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands
of the living God." |