Quotes about Choice
After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
- Acts 15:7
Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
- Romans 6:16
Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
- Romans 9:18
Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?
- 1 Corinthians 4:21
Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity.
- 1 Corinthians 7:21
Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:27
But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.
- 1 Corinthians 7:28
But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.
- 1 Corinthians 7:37
So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.
- 1 Corinthians 7:38
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 7:39
In my judgment, however, she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
- 1 Corinthians 7:40
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
- 1 Corinthians 10:21