Quotes About Choice

You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.

In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.

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.

but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.

So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

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?

For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity.

However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.