• Matthew 7:21-23
  "Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?" And then I will declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!"
   
• Romans 3:11
  There is none who understands;
  There is none who seeks after God.
  
   

Related Scriptures

• John 6:44
  No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
   
• Philippians 2:13
  for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
   
• 1 Peter 2:9-10
  But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
   
• Romans 9:15-16
  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 who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
   
• 1 Corinthians 1:26-29
  For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
   
• Romans 9:13
  As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."
   
• Romans 9:20
  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?"
   
• Ephesians 1:5
  having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
   
• Ephesians 2:8
  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
   
• Colossians 1:13
  He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,