Romans 8:29

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.

He also

Ephesians 1:5

1 Peter 1:20

To be

That he might

Revelation 1:5

General references

Ephesians 3:11

Bible References

He also

For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure--

He was pre-destined indeed to this work, even before the creation of the world, but has been plainly manifested in these last days for the sake of you who, through Him,

To be

On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings.

They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

And as we have borne a resemblance to the earthy one, let us see to it that we also bear a resemblance to the heavenly One.

And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from the Lord the Spirit.

even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without blemish in His presence.

with that new and better self which has been created to resemble God in the righteousness and holiness which come from the truth.

who, in the exercise of the power which He has even to subject all things to Himself, will transform this body of our humiliation until it resembles His own glorious body.

Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

That he might

To obey my Father who is in Heaven--that is to be my brother and my sister and my mother."

"But the King will answer them, "'In solemn truth I tell you that in so far as you rendered such services to one of the humblest of these my brethren, you rendered them to myself.'

"Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God, the Firstborn and Lord of all creation.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "My Son art Thou: I have this day become Thy Father;" and again, "I will be a Father to Him, and He shall be My Son"?

For both He who sanctifies and those whom He is sanctifying have all one Father; and for this reason He is not ashamed to speak of them as His brothers;

and from Jesus Christ, the truthful witness, the first of the dead to be born to Life, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with His own blood,

General references

Such was the eternal purpose which He had formed in Christ Jesus our Lord,