Acts 15:18

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  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?
  • Isa 41:22-23 : 22 “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, so we may examine them and see how they were fulfilled. Or decree for us some future events! 23 Predict how future events will turn out, so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or bad, so we might be frightened and in awe.
  • Isa 44:7 : 7 Who is like me? Let him make his claim! Let him announce it and explain it to me– since I established an ancient people– let them announce future events!
  • Isa 45:21 : 21 Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the LORD? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me.
  • Isa 46:9-9 : 9 Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says,‘My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,’
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet:“I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 Then the king will say to those on his right,‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will
  • Eph 3:9 : 9 and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan– the mystery that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.
  • 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 Call to Stand Firm But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.
  • Rev 13:8 : 8 and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed.
  • Rev 17:8 : 8 The beast you saw was, and is not, but is about to come up from the abyss and then go to destruction. The inhabitants of the earth– all those whose names have not been written in the book of life since the foundation of the world– will be astounded when they see that the beast was, and is not, but is to come.

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  • Acts 15:17
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    17so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things

  • Rom 1:18-20
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    18The Condemnation of the Unrighteous For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

    19because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

    20For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes– his eternal power and divine nature– have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

  • Acts 15:19
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    19“Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God,

  • Acts 14:15-16
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    15“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

    16In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,

  • Rom 16:25-26
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    25Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that had been kept secret for long ages,

    26but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–

  • Eph 3:9
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    9and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan– the mystery that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

  • Rom 8:28
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    28And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

  • Eph 2:10
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    10For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.

  • Job 12:9
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    9Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this,

  • Eccl 3:14
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    14God’s Sovereignty I also know that whatever God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it. God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.

  • Isa 46:10
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    10who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says,‘My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,’

  • Jer 11:18
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    18A Plot Against Jeremiah is Revealed and He Complains of Injustice The LORD gave me knowledge, that I might have understanding. Then he showed me what the people were doing.

  • Acts 17:24-27
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    24The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

    25nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

    26From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

    27so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

  • Acts 4:28
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    28to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

  • Acts 3:18
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    18But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets– that his Christ would suffer– he has fulfilled in this way.

  • Eph 3:11
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    11This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

  • 1 Pet 1:20
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    20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

  • Eph 1:9
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    9He did this when he revealed to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

  • 1 Kgs 8:60
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    60Then all the nations of the earth will recognize that the LORD is the only genuine God.

  • Isa 29:15
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    15Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”

  • Acts 15:8
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    8And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

  • Ps 33:15
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    15He is the one who forms every human heart, and takes note of all their actions.

  • Prov 16:4
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    4The LORD has worked everything for his own ends– even the wicked for the day of disaster.

  • Acts 17:30
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    30Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

  • 1 Cor 12:6
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    6And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

  • Rom 11:33
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    33Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways!

  • Isa 66:18
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    18“I hate their deeds and thoughts! So I am coming to gather all the nations and ethnic groups; they will come and witness my splendor.

  • Eccl 3:11
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    11God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

  • Rom 15:18
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    18For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • Acts 10:35
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    35but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

  • Eph 1:11
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    11In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

  • 1 Cor 3:20
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    20And again,“The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

  • Titus 1:16
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    16They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

  • Job 37:7
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    7He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work.

  • Rom 9:23
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    23And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–

  • Ps 111:2
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    2The LORD’s deeds are great, eagerly awaited by all who desire them.

  • 1 Thess 1:4
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    4We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you,

  • John 17:7
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    7Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

  • Rom 15:9
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    9and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,“Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name.”

  • 2 Cor 5:18
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    18And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

  • Acts 10:37
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    37you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced: