• Ephesians 1:3-10
  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, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.
   
• Isaiah 46:10-11
  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,’
  Calling a bird of prey from the east,
  The man who executes My counsel, from a far country.
  Indeed I have spoken it;
  I will also bring it to pass.
  I have purposed it;
  I will also do it.
  
   
• Psalm 115:3
  But our God is in heaven;
  He does whatever He pleases.
  
   
• Isaiah 53:10
  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;
  He has put Him to grief.
  When You make His soul an offering for sin,
  He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
  And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
  
   

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.
   
• Ephesians 1:11-12
  In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
   
• 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.