• Ephesians 1:3-5
  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
   
• Psalm 115:3
  But our God is in heaven;
  He does whatever He pleases.
  
   
• Isaiah 46:10
  Declaring the end from the beginning,
  And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
  Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
  And I will do all My pleasure,’
  
   
• Ephesians 1:9
  having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,
   
• Romans 9:19-24
  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 who 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?
   

Related Scriptures

• John 17:3
  And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
   
• John 17:20-23
  "I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
   
• Romans 9:18
  Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
   
• Hebrews 10:37-38
  "For yet a little while,
  And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
  Now the just shall live by faith;
  But if anyone draws back,
  My soul has no pleasure in him."
   
• 1 John 2:15-17
  Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.