Bible Verses about “free will”
The Bible contains 15 verses about free will across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
“A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.”
“that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
“But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:”
“For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
“For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.”
“If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."”
“who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.”
“but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."”
“Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;”
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;”
“If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.”
“to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”