This page outlines a list of Bible verses on free will. The verses are presented without commentary. Enjoy!
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25+ Bible verses on (no) Free Will
Bible verses on My Will & God’s Will:
- John 5:30: “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”
- John 6:38-40: “Jesus stated, ‘For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.'”
- John 6:44: “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
- Matthew 6:10, NIV: “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
- Matthew 6:10: “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”
- Matthew 11:27: “All things have been committed to me by my Father.”
- Matthew 26:39, NIV: “Not as I will, but as you will.”
- Luke 22:42: “Not my will, but yours be done.”
- Proverbs 16:9: “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.”
- Proverbs 16:9: “The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.”
- Proverbs 16:9: “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.”
- Proverbs 19:21: “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”
- Proverbs 21:1: “The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.”
- Psalm 33:10-11: “The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.”
- Psalm 37:23-24: “The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.”
- Jeremiah 10:23: “I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.”
- Jeremiah 10:23: “Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps.”
- Ephesians 2:8-9: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.”
- Philippians 2:13: “For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.”
- Philippians 2:13: “For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.”
- Daniel 4:35: “All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: ‘What have you done?'”
- Romans 11:33-36: “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?’ ‘Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?’ For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.”
Bible verses on Good & Evil:
- Proverbs 16:4, NIV: “The Lord works out everything to its proper end—even the wicked for a day of disaster.”
- Proverbs 16:4, KJV: “The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.”
- Ecclesiastes 7:14, NIV: “When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.”
- Amos 3:6 (NIV): “When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it?”
- Job 2:10, NIV: “Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”
- Lamentations 3:37-38: “Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?”
- Romans 9:15-21: “For he says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.’ It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. For Scripture says to Pharaoh: ‘I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.’ Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. One of you will say to me: ‘Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?’ But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? ‘Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?”
- Romans 9:16-18: “So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ‘For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.’ So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.”
- Isaiah 45:6-7: “So that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting people may know there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.”
- Ezekiel 14:9, NIV: “‘If the prophet is enticed to utter a prophecy, I the Lord have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.’”
Bible verses on Predestination & Determinism:
- Matthew 24:36, NIV: “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”
- John 15:16: “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.”
- Psalm 139:16: “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
- Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- Romans 8:29-30: “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.”
- Ephesians 1:4-5: “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.”
- Ephesians 1:11: “In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.”
- Ephesians 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.”
- Isaiah 14:24: “The Lord Almighty has sworn, ‘Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will happen.'”
- Isaiah 46:9-10: “Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’”
- Ecclesiastes 3:1: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”
- Acts 17:26: “From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.”
- Job 14:5: “A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.”
- 2 Timothy 1:9: “He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.”
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