Biblical Basis For Calvinism

Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.

Whatever the LORD pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD

Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.

Man's steps are ordained by the LORD, How then can man understand his way?

The king's heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes.

Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

"It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, And there was no strange god among you;  So you are My witnesses," declares the LORD, " And I am God.

"Even from eternity I am He, And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?"

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD , do all these things.

Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, 'My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure';

Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it?  Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth?

also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,

for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

God is free.  I am free.  If my freedom runs up against God's freedom, I lose.  His freedom restricts mine; my freedom does not restrict his.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?  Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.

For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.  For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

Jesus answered and said to them, "Do not grumble among yourselves. "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.  "Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. 

"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
"But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.  "Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?
"He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God."

also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,

When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.  So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies;
who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours;

So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me."
When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."

In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. "

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him,

But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man,

But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." ."No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might 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.