BIBLE PASSAGES USED BY AUGUSTINE IN WRITING ON ORIGINAL SIN AND PREDESTINATION

Extracts from Revised Standard Version.

FROM PAUL'S LETTER TO THE ROMANS

Romans 5

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Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

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More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

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and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

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and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.

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While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man--though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die.

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But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

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Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

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For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

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Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.

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Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned--

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sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

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Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

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But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.

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And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brings justification.

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If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

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Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men.

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For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous.

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Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

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so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 7

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We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

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I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

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Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.

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So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.

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For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.

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For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.

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Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.

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So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

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For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,

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but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

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Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

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Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Romans 8

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We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.

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For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

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And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.

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What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?

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He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?

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Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies;

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who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us?

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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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As it is written, "For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

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No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

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nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 9

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I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit,

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that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

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For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race.

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They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

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to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed for ever. Amen.

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But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,

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and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but "Through Isaac shall your descendants be named."

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This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.

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For this is what the promise said, "About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son."

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And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,

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though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call,

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she was told, "The elder will serve the younger."

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As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

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What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!

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For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

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So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.

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For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

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So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart of whomever he wills.

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You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"

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But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me thus?"

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Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for beauty and another for menial use?

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What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction,

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in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory,

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even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

 

Romans 10

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because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips and so is saved.

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The scripture says, "No one who believes in him will be put to shame."

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For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and bestows his riches upon all who call upon him.

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For, "every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."

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But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?

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And how can men preach unless they are sent?

 

FROM PAUL'S FIRST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS

1 Corinthians 4

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For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?

 

FROM PAUL'S LETTER TO THE PHILIPPIANS

Philippians 2

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Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

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for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

 

FROM LETTER OF JAMES

James 1

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Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

 

GOSPEL OF JOHN

John 6

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And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father."