Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

General references

Bible References

He also

Ephesians 1:5
having predestined us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
1 Peter 1:20
indeed having been foreknown before the foundation of the world, but revealed in the last times for you,

To be

Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh.
John 17:16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
1 Corinthians 15:49
And according as we bore the image of the earthy man, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.
Ephesians 1:4
according as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
Ephesians 4:24
And you should put on the new man, who according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.
Philippians 3:21
who shall change our body of humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working of His power, even to subdue all things to Himself.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He shall be revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

That he might

Psalm 89:27
And I will make him My first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.
Matthew 12:50
For whoever shall do the will of My Father in Heaven, the same is My brother and sister and mother.
Matthew 25:40
And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you have done it to Me.
John 20:17
Jesus said to her, Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, I ascend to My Father and Your Father, and to My God and your God.
Colossians 1:15
who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation.
Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels did He say at any time, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You?" And again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?"
Hebrews 2:11
For both He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Revelation 1:5
even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

General references

Deuteronomy 21:16
then it shall be in the day when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, he may not cause to inherit the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the hated one, he who is truly the first-born.
Ephesians 3:11
according to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;