100 Bible Verses about When Did God Choose His Son To Die For Us

John 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 1:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

1 John 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Luke 19:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Revelation 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

1 Timothy 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 8:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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—

Romans 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

John 17:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 15:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 12:23-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 1:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

John 1:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 9:56 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they went on to another village.

Habakkuk 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Revelation 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

1 John 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

1 John 5:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

1 John 5:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

1 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1 John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Peter 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you

James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Ephesians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

Ephesians 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

Galatians 4:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Galatians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

2 Corinthians 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Romans 8:29-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

John 20:24-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.” Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” ...

John 20:19-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”

John 17:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 10:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

John 8:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”

John 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 6:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

John 1:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Matthew 20:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 18:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Matthew 11:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, ...

Zechariah 9:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Jeremiah 23:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.

Isaiah 55:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

Isaiah 55:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Isaiah 9:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Psalm 90:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Psalm 89:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”