Ephesians 1:4
Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
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Ephesians 1:4
Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
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Ephesians 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:
Ephesians 1:4
Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
Ephesians 1:5
As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,
Ephesians 2:10
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
James 1:18
Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
Ephesians 1:14
Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.
Jeremiah 31:3
From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.
Ephesians 2:4
But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,
Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
Psalms 110:3
Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.
1 John 4:19
We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.
Genesis 32:29
Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.
Ephesians 1:18
And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
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Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,
Ephesians 1:8
Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;
Ephesians 1:12
So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:
Ephesians 2:6
So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;
Ephesians 2:7
That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 2:8
Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
Colossians 1:13
Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;
1 John 4:9
And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.
1 John 4:10
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
John 1:13
Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
Titus 3:3
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
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2 Thessalonians 2:13
But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:
2 Thessalonians 2:14
And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:29
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
Romans 8:30
And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.
2 Timothy 1:9
Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
Colossians 3:12
As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;
Romans 1:7
To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 3:2
My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.
Ephesians 4:1
I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,
Jude 1:1
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ:
Colossians 1:2
To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
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Colossians 1:22
In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:26
So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,
Ephesians 5:27
And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.
Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?
Jude 1:24
Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy,
Revelation 14:5
And in their mouth there was no false word, for they are untouched by evil.
Hosea 2:18
And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.
Hosea 2:19
And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 9:26
For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.
Philippians 1:6
For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:
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1 Peter 1:20
Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,
Ephesians 1:9
Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands
Ephesians 1:10
The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,
Ephesians 1:11
In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
Matthew 25:34
Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:
Revelation 13:8
And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.
Matthew 13:35
That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.
Revelation 17:8
The beast which you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the great deep, and to go into destruction. And those who are on the earth, whose names have not been put in the book of life from the first, will be full of wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and still will be.
Acts 15:18
Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.
Romans 16:26
But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;
Proverbs 8:21
So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.
Luke 11:50
So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;
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1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1 Peter 1:2
Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.
Romans 11:5
In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.
Psalms 4:3
See how the Lord has made great his mercy for me; the Lord will give ear to my cry.
Romans 8:33
Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;
Revelation 17:14
These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.
1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
Romans 8:39
Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 9:23
And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
2 Timothy 2:10
But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
1 Peter 2:12
Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.
1 Peter 2:21
This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:
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John 17:22
And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one;
John 17:23
I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.
John 17:24
Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.
John 17:4
I have given you glory on the earth, having done all the work which you gave me to do.
John 17:5
And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.
John 17:6
I have given knowledge of your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your words.
John 17:1
Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:
John 17:2
Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.
John 17:9
My prayer is for them: my prayer is not for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, because they are yours
John 17:10
(All mine are yours, and yours are mine) and I have glory in them.
John 16:28
I came out from the Father and have come into the world: again, I go away from the world and go to the Father.
John 17:26
And I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the love which you have for me may be in them and I in them.
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1 Thessalonians 1:4
Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;
Romans 8:1
For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.
Isaiah 45:17
But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.
John 15:2
He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.
John 15:5
I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.
Romans 16:7
Give my love to Andronicus and Junia, my relations, who were in prison with me, who are noted among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me.
Romans 16:11
Give my love to Herodion, my relation. Say a kind word to those of the house of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:2
I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.
Galatians 3:28
There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 7:18
So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who with us have a part in the same holy faith in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:
2 John 1:1
I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;
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Romans 8:28
And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.
Titus 1:1
Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,
2 Peter 1:10
For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:
Acts 13:48
And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.
Romans 8:31
What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,
Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
Romans 8:3
For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:
Romans 8:24
For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?
2 Corinthians 5:17
So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.
Galatians 4:4
But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
2 Peter 1:3
Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;
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Ephesians 3:9
And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;
Ephesians 3:10
So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,
Ephesians 3:11
Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Titus 1:2
In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;
Titus 1:3
Who, in his time, made clear his word in the good news, of which, by the order of God our Saviour, I became a preacher;
Romans 16:25
Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;
Colossians 1:26
The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,
Colossians 1:27
To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
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1 Peter 2:9
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
1 Peter 2:10
In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.
1 Peter 2:11
My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
1 Thessalonians 4:7
Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
Romans 12:1
For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
1 Corinthians 1:30
But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:
Hebrews 12:14
Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;
1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
2 Timothy 2:19
But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.
Hebrews 2:10
Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.
1 Peter 5:10
And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;
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John 15:16
You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
John 13:18
I am not talking of you all: I have knowledge of my true disciples, but things are as they are, so that the Writings may come true, The foot of him who takes bread with me is lifted up against me.
Mark 13:20
And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.
Acts 1:2
Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:
Acts 1:24
And they made prayers and said, Lord, having knowledge of the hearts of all men, make clear which of these two has been marked out by you,
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:
Luke 10:42
Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.
John 6:70
Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One?
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1 Peter 1:19
But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:
Philippians 2:15
So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
Ephesians 5:2
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.
2 Peter 3:14
For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
2 Corinthians 5:19
That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.
Colossians 1:20
Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.
Colossians 1:21
And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one
1 Thessalonians 3:13
So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,
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John 6:37
Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.
John 6:38
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.
John 6:39
And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.
John 6:40
This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.
John 6:44
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
John 6:45
The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.
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Ephesians 1:13
In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,
Titus 3:4
But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,
Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,
Titus 3:6
Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Titus 3:7
So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.
1 John 4:16
And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
John 3:16
For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.
Romans 3:24
And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 2:2
In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;
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Romans 9:11
Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,
Luke 1:74
That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship,
Luke 1:75
In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.
Psalms 65:4
Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.
Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
Psalms 106:5
So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.
Isaiah 4:3
And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 43:21
Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.
Isaiah 60:21
Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.
Luke 18:7
And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
John 17:19
And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.
Romans 11:2
God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
1 Peter 1:15
But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;
1 Peter 1:16
Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.
Leviticus 11:44
For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.
Leviticus 19:2
Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
Leviticus 20:7
So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.
Exodus 19:6
And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
Psalms 135:4
For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.
Isaiah 41:8
But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:
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Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the purpose of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and those who have faith in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 1:2
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew 22:14
For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.
Philippians 3:21
By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
1 John 3:1
See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
Matthew 20:16
So the last will be first, and the first last.
Galatians 5:6
Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
Ephesians 4:4
There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;
Colossians 3:22
Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.
1 John 2:19
They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.
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Ephesians 1:22
And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church,
Ephesians 3:17
So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,
Ephesians 3:18
May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,
Ephesians 3:19
And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.
Romans 12:5
So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;
Ephesians 4:13
Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:
Ephesians 4:15
But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;
Ephesians 4:16
Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.
Ephesians 5:30
Because we are parts of his body.
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Ephesians 4:22
That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
Ephesians 4:23
And be made new in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:24
And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.
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Isaiah 42:1
See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
Matthew 12:18
See my servant, the man of my selection, my loved one in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him, and he will make my decision clear to the Gentiles.
Isaiah 49:1
Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:
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Isaiah 46:9
Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;
Isaiah 46:10
Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
Isaiah 46:11
Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.
Isaiah 14:27
For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?
Isaiah 44:7
If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me.
Acts 4:28
To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
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John 1:1
From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.
Proverbs 8:23
From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.
Micah 5:2
And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.
Colossians 1:15
Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
Colossians 1:16
For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;
Colossians 1:17
He is before all things, and in him all things have being.
Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.
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Acts 15:22
Then it seemed good to the Apostles and the rulers and all the church, to send men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, named Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers:
Acts 6:5
And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew:
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Romans 16:13
Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.
1 Corinthians 1:9
God is true, through whom you have been given a part with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Colossians 3:14
And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Acts 27:31
But Paul said to the captain and his men, If you do not keep these men in the ship, you will not be safe.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.
Galatians 5:13
Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
Ephesians 4:2
With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;
Philemon 1:7
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
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1 Corinthians 1:26
For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:
1 Corinthians 1:27
But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;
1 Corinthians 1:28
And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:
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Psalms 132:14
This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.
Isaiah 14:1
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.
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Ezekiel 43:12
This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.
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Zechariah 14:20
On that day all the bells of the horses will be holy to the Lord, and the pots in the Lord's house will be like the basins before the altar.
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Zechariah 14:21
And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of armies: and all those who make offerings will come and take them for boiling their offerings: in that day there will be no more traders in the house of the Lord of armies.
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Acts 15:25
It seemed good to us, having come to an agreement together, to send these men to you, with our well loved Barnabas and Paul,
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1 Corinthians 1:8
Who will give you strength to the end, to be free from all sin in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;
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1 Corinthians 4:3
But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.
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1 Corinthians 4:4
For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.
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1 John 3:20
When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.
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1 John 3:21
My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;
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