Calvinism

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

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.

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, …