When the full time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

Luke 2:30-31

My eyes have seen your salvation. That which you prepared before the peoples.

Ephesians 1:3-12

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places through Christ. He chose us through him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love. He predetermined (ordained) us to adoption, as sons to himself through Jesus Christ, according to the kind intention of his will. read more.
This is to the praise of the glory of his kindness, with which he freely honored us, the loved ones. In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. He made this undeserved kindness abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence (insight). He made known to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure and purpose. It was for an administration at the appointed time. This administration is to gather up all things in Christ, the things in heaven, and the things upon the earth. Yes in him! We were assigned as heirs predetermined according to his purpose. He works all things according to his direction and will. We who were first to hope in Christ should serve to the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 1:17-22

May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit (mental disposition) of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. Have the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know the hope of his calling, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the holy ones, and what the exceeding greatness of his power is toward us who believe, according to the operation of his mighty strength. read more.
He operated in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places. It is far above all governments and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. He (God) put all things in subjection under his feet, and made him head over all things to the congregation,

Ephesians 2:4-10

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved. God raised us up with him and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, with Christ Jesus. read more.
So in the ages to come he, with Christ Jesus, might show the exceeding (surpassing) (exceptional) riches of his grace with kindness toward us. By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God! It is not the result of works. So no man should boast. For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

Colossians 1:19-20

It was the good pleasure of the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell. And all things are reconciled through him. He made peace through the blood of his atonement (of the stake). He reconciles all things, whether things upon the earth, or things in heaven.

1 Peter 1:20

Jesus was known before the foundation of the world. He was made known at the end times for your sake.

Revelation 13:8

All the citizens of earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life who was slain from the foundation of the world.

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Character » Of saints » New creatures

2 Corinthians 5:17

If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

Character of saints » New creatures

2 Corinthians 5:17

If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

Creation » Illustrative of » New Birth

2 Corinthians 5:17

If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

Election » Of grace

John 15:16

You did not choose me. I chose you and appointed you. You should go and bear fruit and your fruit should remain. Whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

John 17:6

I taught your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours and you gave them to me. They have lived by your word.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 1:4

He chose us through him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

We always have to thank God for you, brothers. Jehovah loves you and we thank God that in the beginning he chose you to be saved through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

Election » Of saints, is » To good works

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

Faith/faithfulness » What is achieved through and by faith

Acts 3:11-16

The beggar held on to Peter and John while all the people came to them at the place called Solomon's Colonnade. When Peter saw this he spoke to the people: You men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you look at us as though our own power or holiness made this man walk? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus. You handed him over to Pilate. When he was determined to let him go you denied him. read more.
You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and requested a murderer to be released to you. You killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead. We witnessed this! This man you see and know was made strong by his faith in the name of Jesus. His faith has given him total healing in your presence.

Romans 3:28-31

We reason therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the nations also? Yes, of the nations also. If God is one he will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. read more.
Do we nullify the law through faith? No we do not! In fact, we establish (continue) (stand by) (uphold) the law.

Romans 9:30

What shall we say? The nations did not pursue righteousness. Yet they have attained to righteousness, the righteousness that is based on the principle of faith.

Verse Concepts

Galatians 3:8-14

The Scripture revealed ahead of time, that God justified the people of the nations by faith. He preached the good news beforehand to Abraham. He said: In you will all the nations be blessed. So then those who have faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. Those who are of the works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, by obeying them. read more.
The fact that the Law justifies no man before God is evident. The righteous will live by faith. The Law is not based on faith. He that does them will live by them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written; Cursed is everyone who is hung on a stake. This way the blessing of Abraham might come upon the nations through Christ Jesus and we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Ephesians 2:8-10

By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God! It is not the result of works. So no man should boast. For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

Hebrews 11:1-11

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, and evidence of things not seen. God approved of the men of old because of their faith. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God. The visible has been made out of things that were not visible. read more.
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Through this he was commended as righteous. God testified about his gifts. Thus through faith he still speaks even though he is dead. By faith Enoch was moved (transferred) (removed) so that he would not see death. He was not found, because God had moved him away. Before he was moved away he saw that he had pleased God well. (Genesis 5:24) Without faith it is impossible to please God. He who comes to God must believe that he is and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not seen as yet, moved with godly respect. He prepared an ark to save his house. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith. By faith, when Abraham was called, he obeyed. He went to a place that he was to receive for an inheritance. He went even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he became an alien in the Promised Land. It was not his land. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob. They were heirs with him of the same promise. He looked for the city having real foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By faith Sarah received strength to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who promised.

Giving and gifts » The gift of God

Romans 11:29

The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 4:7

But unto each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

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Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Ecclesiastes 5:18-20

This is what I have seen. It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. He labors under the sun all the days of his life. For God gives this to him as his allotment (inheritance). For every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has empowered him to eat because of them. He should receive his reward and rejoice in his labor. This is the gift of God. He will not often remember the years of his life. This is because God keeps him occupied with the gladness (pleasure) of his heart.

Ephesians 2:8-10

2 Timothy 1:6

For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God that is in you because of the laying on of my hands.

Ecclesiastes 3:13

Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor. It is the gift of God.

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Acts 8:20

Peter said to him: Your money will perish with you, because you think that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

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Romans 5:14-18

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even for those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression. Adam is in some ways like Christ who came later. But the two are not the same, because God's gift (spiritual endowment) is not like Adam's sin. It is true that many people died because of the sin of that one man. But God's grace is much greater, and so is his gift to so many people through the loving-kindness of the one man, Jesus Christ. And there is a difference between God's gift (spiritual endowment) and the sin of one man. After the one sin, came the guilty judgment; but after so many sins, comes the undeserved gift of righteousness. read more.
It was by the transgression of the one that death ruled as king through that one. Even more so shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, rule as kings in life by the one, Jesus Christ. The result of one trespass was condemnation for all men. The result of righteousness was justification (acquittal), which brings life for all men.

New Birth » Described as » A new creation

2 Corinthians 5:17

If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

Verse Concepts

Galatians 6:15

For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision anything, but a new creature is.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

Newness » Who is a new creature

2 Corinthians 5:17

If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

Verse Concepts

Romans 6:3-7

Or are you ignorant to the fact that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death. Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, that we might walk in the newness of life. If we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection. read more.
We know this that our old self was impaled with him that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer be in bondage to sin. He who has died is freed from sin.

Ephesians 2:5-10

even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved. God raised us up with him and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, with Christ Jesus. So in the ages to come he, with Christ Jesus, might show the exceeding (surpassing) (exceptional) riches of his grace with kindness toward us. read more.
By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God! It is not the result of works. So no man should boast. For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

Ordination » What has been ordained

1 Corinthians 2:7

We speak the wisdom of God in a secret, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages (generations and human entities) for our glory.

Verse Concepts

1 Corinthians 9:13-14

Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live off the things of the temple? And they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? Even so, has the Lord ordained that they who preach the good news should earn their living from the good news?

Ephesians 2:8-10

Romans 7:10

The commandment, which was to life, this I found to be to death.

Verse Concepts

Romans 13:1-2

Let every person be subject to superior authorities. For there is no authority except by God. God allows the authorities to serve in their positions. Whoever opposes the authority resists the ordinance of God. Those who resist will receive judgment.

Galatians 3:19-20

What then is the law? It was added (to cause awareness of sin) because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. A mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one.

Redemption » They who partake of » Are zealous of good works

1 Peter 2:9

You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

Titus 2:14

He (Jesus Christ) gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify a people for himself, who are special people, zealous for good works.