Topic
Foreordain; Forordination
12 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Matthew 10:29ISBE
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
- Matthew 10:30ISBE
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
- Acts 2:23ISBE
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
- Acts 2:28ISBE
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
- Acts 4:28ISBE
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
- Acts 17:26ISBE
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
- Romans 8:29ISBE
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
- Romans 8:30ISBE
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
- 1 Corinthians 2:7ISBE
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
- Ephesians 1:5ISBE
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
- Ephesians 1:11ISBE
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:
- 1 Peter 2:8ISBE
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 15 references
for-or-dan', for-or-di-na'-shun:
The word "foreordain" is uniformly used in the Revised Version (British and American) to render the Greek proorizo, in the passages where this verb occurs (Ac 4:28; Ro 8:29,30; 1Co 2:7; Eph 15:11). In the passages in Romans and Ephesians it takes the place of the King James Version word "predestinate," a return to the usage of the older English versions The word has simply the sense of determining beforehand. It is thus kindred in meaning with a number of other New Testament words expressing the idea of Divine purpose, as "foreknow" (in pregnant sense, Ac 2:23; Ro 8:29, etc.); "determine" (Ac 17:26); "appoint" (1Pe 2:8). Foreordination, in the widest sense, is coextensive with the sphere of God's universal providence, being but another name for that Divine plan, purpose or counsel which embraces all things, great and small (Mt 10:29,30), that happen in Nature, or fall out in human life. Man's free actions are not regarded in Scripture as excluded from it (Ac 2:28). Foreordination, at the same time, is not to be conceived of as in any way overriding, or doing violence to, human freedom. Man acts freely, as Nature acts necessarily, but it is God who appoints the time, place and circumstances of the free act, permits its happening, and overrules it and its issues for the furthering of His own wise and holy ends. See PROVIDENCE. Foreordination in the sphere of grace has respect to the choice, calling and blessing of those who, through faith, are made partakers of eternal life (Ro 8:29,30; Eph 1:5,11). In this, its soteriological aspect, the subject is considered in special articles.
See CHOOSE; ELECTION; PREDESTINATION.
James Orr
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.