Supporting Verses
This is a only a brief effort to support each of the “5 points of
Calvinism” Biblically. The Bible fully supports the 5 points througout
the Old Testament and the New Testament. It is recommended that you read
the book “The Five Points of Calvinism Defined, Defended, Documented”
by David N. Steele and Curtis C. Thomas, and research this subject
yourself in the Bible!
- Romans 5:12 - Therefore, just as sin came into the
world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to
all men because all sinned.
- Psalm 51:1-5 - Have mercy on me, O God, according
to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my
transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from
my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your
sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your
judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my
mother conceive me.
- Jeremiah 13:23 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14 - The natural person does not
accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and
he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually
discerned.
- John 6:44 - No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
- Psalm 33:11-12 The counsel of the Lord stands
forever, the plans of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the
nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his
heritage!
- Matthew 11:27 All things have been handed over to
me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one
knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to
reveal him.
- Romans 8:28-30 And we know that for those who love
God all things work together for good, for those who are called
according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined
to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the
firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also
called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he
justified he also glorified.
- Ephesians 1:3-9 Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before
him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through
Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his
glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we
have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all
wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according
to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
- Romans 9:10-21 And not only so, but also when
Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though
they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order
that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but
because of him who calls— she was told, “The older will serve the
younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” What
shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! For he
says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whom I have compassion.” 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. You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who
can resist his will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God?
Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one
vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
- Matthew 1:21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
- Romans 5:8-10 but God shows his love for us in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore,
we have now been justified by his blood, much more shallwe be saved by
him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were
reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are
reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
- John 6:35-40 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread
of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in
me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet
do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and
whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from
heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this
is the will of him who sent me,that I should lose nothing of all that he
has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of
my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should
have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
- John 10:11-18 I am the good shepherd. The good
shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand and
not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and
leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters
them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the
sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as
the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for
the sheep. And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must
bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one
flock, one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay
down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I
lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I
have authority to take it up again.This charge I have received from my
Father.”
- Hebrews 9:28 so Christ, having been offered once
to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with
sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
- Isaiah 55:11 so shall my word be that goes out
from my mouth; it shall not return tome empty, but it shall accomplish
that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent
it.
- Ezekiel 36:26-28 And I will give you a new heart,
and a new spirit I will put within you.And I will remove the heart of
stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my
Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful
to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- Ephesians 2:1-6 And you were dead in the
trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of
this world, following the prince of the power of the air,the spirit that
is now at work in the sons of disobedience - among whom we all once
lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body
and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of
mankind. But God, being rich in mercy,because of the great love with
which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us
alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us
up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ
Jesus,
- Romans 8:30 And those whom he predestined he also
called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he
justified he also glorified.
- Acts 9:1-9 But Saul, still breathing threats and
murder against the disciples of the Lord,went to the high priest and
asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found
any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to
Jerusalem. Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and
suddenly alight from heaven shone around him. And falling to the ground,
he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting
me?” And he said, “Who are you, Lord?”And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you
are persecuting. But rise and enter the city, andyou will be told what
you are to do.” The men who were traveling with him stood speechless,
hearing the voice but seeing no one. Saul rose from the ground, and
although his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. So they led him by the
hand and brought him into Damascus. And for three days he was without
sight, and neither ate nor drank.
- Isaiah 43:1-3 But now thus says the Lord, he who
created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have
redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass
through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they
shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be
burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush
and Seba in exchange for you.
- John 10:27-30 My sheep hear my voice, and I know
them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never
perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has
given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them
out of the Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 Now may the God of peace
himself sanctify you completely,and may your whole spirit and soul and
body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who
calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
- 1 Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be
born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable,undefiled, and
unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded
through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
- Jude 24-25 Now to him who is able to keep you from
stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory
with great joy, to the only God, our Savior,through Jesus Christ our
Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and
now and forever. Amen.
- Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace you have been saved
through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in them.
- 1 Corinthians 4:7 For who sees anything different
in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received
it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
- Romans 8:31-37 What then shall we say to these
things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare
his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him
graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against
God'select? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is
the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand
of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,“For your
sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to
be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor
angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able
to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 11:33-36 Oh, the depth of the riches and
wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how
inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who
has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might
be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him are all things. To
him be glory forever. Amen.