In Scripture
Scriptures used to support the doctrine include (NT quotes from Wesley's translation, unless noted):
- Jeremiah 1:5 (ESV): "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you..."
- Jeremiah 31:3 (KJV): "...I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."
- Ezekiel 34:11, 16 (ESV): "For thus says the Lord G: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out...I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak..."
- Luke 19:10: "For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."
- John 6:44: "No man can come unto me, unless the Father who hath sent me, draw him..."
- John 12:32: "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.”
- Romans 2:4: "...the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance..."
- Philippians 2:12-13: "...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God that worketh in you according to his good pleasure, both to will and to do."
- 1 John 4:19: "We love him, because he first loved us."
- Titus 2:11: "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men."
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