Topic
Decrees of God
14 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Psalms 17:13Easton
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
- Psalms 17:14Easton
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
- Psalms 33:11Easton
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
- Isaiah 46:9Easton
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
- Matthew 10:29Easton
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
- Matthew 10:30Easton
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
- Acts 2:23Easton
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
- Acts 4:27Easton
For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
- Acts 4:28Easton
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
- Acts 15:18Easton
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
- Ephesians 1:4Easton
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
- Ephesians 1:11Easton
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
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- Ephesians 2:10 Easton
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 14 references
“The decrees of God are his eternal, unchangeable, holy, wise, and sovereign purpose, comprehending at once all things that ever were or will be in their causes, conditions, successions, and relations, and determining their certain futurition. The several contents of this one eternal purpose are, because of the limitation of our faculties, necessarily conceived of by us in partial aspects, and in logical relations, and are therefore styled Decrees.” The decree being the act of an infinite, absolute, eternal, unchangeable, and sovereign Person, comprehending a plan including all his works of all kinds, great and small, from the beginning of creation to an unending eternity; ends as well as means, causes as well as effects, conditions and instrumentalities as well as the events which depend upon them, must be incomprehensible by the finite intellect of man. The decrees are eternal (Acts 15:18; Eph. 1:4; 2 Thess. 2:13), unchangeable (Ps. 33:11; Isa. 46:9), and comprehend all things that come to pass (Eph. 1:11; Matt. 10:29, 30; Eph. 2:10; Acts 2:23; 4:27, 28; Ps. 17:13, 14).
The decrees of God are (1) efficacious, as they respect those events he has determined to bring about by his own immediate agency; or (2) permissive, as they respect those events he has determined that free agents shall be permitted by him to effect.
This doctrine ought to produce in our minds “humility, in view of the infinite greatness and sovereignty of God, and of the dependence of man; confidence and implicit reliance upon wisdom, rightenousness, goodness, and immutability of God’s purpose.”
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.