The following Scripture texts were compiled by Victor Longstreth and serve as companion to his article Did John Calvin Invent the Doctrine of Election. Please consider them with care.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 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: having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. (Ephesians 1:3-5)

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He did Foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His son…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…Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifies. (Romans 8:28-30,33)

You did not choose me, but I chose you. (John 15:16)

(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 that calls), it was said to her, “the older shall serve the younger” as it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.” What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid! for he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ‘For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.’ Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens. You will say to me then, ‘Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?’ but indeed, o man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him whom 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? 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, even us whom he called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? (Romans 9:11-24)

For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? (I Cor. 4:7)

I am what I am by the grace of God. (I Cor. 15:10)

Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts. (Psalm 65:4)

No man can come to Me, except the Father which has sent Me draws him: and I will raise him up at the last day…No man can come unto Me, except it were given unto him of My Father. From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him. (John 6:44,65-66)

Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: For if you do these things, you shall never fall. (II Peter 1:10)

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:8-10)

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; in hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. (Titus 1:1,2)

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. (I Peter 1:1,2)

For many are called but few are chosen. (Matthew 20:15)

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you brethren beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto He called you by our Gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (II Thessalonians 2:13,14)

Who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
(II Timothy 2:19)

I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you. (Jeremiah 31:3)

All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me; and him that comes to Me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him that sent Me. And this is the Father’s will which has sent Me, that all which He has given Me I should lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day. (John 6:37-39)

Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables. (Mark 4:11)

Nevertheless the solid foundation of the Lord stands, having this seal: the Lord knows those who are His, and let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. (II Timothy 2:19)

Because narrow is the gate, and difficult is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:14)

There shall by no means enter it [heaven] anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the lamb’s book of life. (Revelation 21:27)

And anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:15)

He who is of God hears God’s words: therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.
(John 8:47)

Who then can be saved? But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “with men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
(Matthew 19:25,26)

Salvation is of the Lord.
(Jonah 2:9)