Bible verses about "fate" | Riverside

³⁴ Take care that your hearts are not dull through overeating and drinking and the cares of life, so that that day may come on you unexpectedly like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come on all who dwell on the face of all the earth. ³⁶ Be watchful at every season in prayer that you may be able to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

¹⁹ This he said, indicating the kind of death by which he would glorify God. After saying this he said to him, "Follow me." ²⁰ Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved, following. (It was he who at the supper had leaned on Jesus' breast and said, "Lord, who is it that will betray you? ") ²¹ Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, "Master, what shall this man do?" ²² Jesus said to him, "If I choose to have him stay until I come, what is that to you? You must follow me."

²⁹ For those whom he foreknew he also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

⁸ Beware that no one carries you away captive by his philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary teachings of the world and not according to Christ.

³² "But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son, but the Father only. ³³ "Be watchful, be wakeful, for you do not know when the time is. ³⁴ It is just as when a man going abroad leaves his house and gives to his servants authority and to each his work and commands the porter to watch. ³⁵ Watch, therefore, for you do not know when the Master of the house will come, whether at evening or at midnight or at cock-crowing or in the morning. ³⁶ Otherwise coming suddenly he may find you sleeping. ³⁷ What I say to you, I say to all, Watch."

²⁸ We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

¹¹ In him we were predestined according to the plan of him who works in all things according to the purpose of his will,

⁴ even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and spotless before him in love. ⁵ He predestined us to recognition as sons to himself through Jesus Christ according to the kindness of his will,

¹⁰ For we are his work, formed in Christ Jesus for good works in which God had prepared beforehand to have us live.