The acronym that is commonly used to outline the
Total Depravity:
Job 15:14-What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous?
Psalm 51:5-Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Psalm 58:3-The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Psalm 130:3-If you, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Proverbs 20:9-Who loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 8:34-Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin."
John 8:44-You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire.
Romans 3:9-12-What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.
Romans 5:12-Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.
Romans 6:20-For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Romans 8:7,8-Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
1 Corinthians 2:14-The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot comprehend them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Ephesians 2:1-3-And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
Job 14:4-Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
Jeremiah 13:23-Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.
Matthew 7:18-A bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
Exodus 33:19 (and Romans 9:15)-I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I wil have compassion.
Psalm 33:12-Blessed is...the people He chose for his inheritance.
Psalm 65:4-Blessed is the man whom You choose, and cause to approach You.
Psalm 106:5-That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones...
Matthew 20:15-Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things?
Matthew 22:14-Many are invited, but few are chosen.
Matthew 24:22, 24, 31-And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened...For false christs and false prohets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect... And he will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together HIs elect form teh four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Luke 18:7-And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him though He bears long with them?
John 15:16-You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain.
Acts 13:48-And all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
Romans 8:30-Those He predestined, he also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:33-Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justfies.
Romans 9:11-13-(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls) it was said to h er, "The older shall serve the younger." As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."
Romans 9:16-It does not, therefore, depend upon man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.
Romans 9:20, 21-But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the things formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
Romans 9:22, 23-What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory...
Romans 11:5-7-Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
Romans 11:28-Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
1 Corinthians 1:27-29-But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
Ephesians 1:4,5-For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will...In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of His glory.
Colossians 3:12-Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humblenessof mind, meekness, longsuffering;
1 Thessalonians 1:4,5-...knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God. For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among for your sake.
2 Thessalonians 2:13, 14-But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Holy Spirit and belief in the truth, to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 10:27-My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
2 Timothy 2:10-Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Chris Jesus with eternal glory.
John 10:27-My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
2 Timothy 2:10-Terefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Titus 1:1-Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which his according to godliness.
James 2:5-Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love Him?
1 Peter 1:1,2-Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ...
1 Peter 2:4-Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious...
Limited Atonement:
Irresistable Grace:
Perserverance of the Saints:
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