“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation” - (John Calvin).
Scriptural Support
Sovereignty of God
"Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God" (Psa 62:11).
"Whatever the LORD pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps" (Psa 135:6 ESV).
"Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him" (Isa 43:7).
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things" (Isa 45:7 KJV).
"It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me" (Jer 27:5 ESV).
"For his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?"
(Dan 4:34b, 35 ESV).
"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him" (Col 1:16).
"Which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords" (1 Tim 6:15).
"God doth exercise his sovereignty in the affair of men's eternal salvation" (Jonathan Edwards, Rom. 9:18).
"And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel." (Gen 3:15).