Ephesians 1:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

We

Being

Ephesians 1:5

The purpose

Ephesians 1:9

General references

Acts 15:18

Ephesians 3:11

Bible References

We

who is the first installment of our inheritance, so that we may finally come into full possession of the prize of redemption, and praise His glory for it.

And now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of His favor, which is able to build you up and to give you your proper possession among all God's consecrated people.

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'

and if children, then also heirs, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ if in reality we share His sufferings, so that we may share His glory too.

For if our inheritance depends on the law, it can no longer depend on the promise. But it was by promise that God so graciously bestowed it upon Abraham.

and you will always be thanking the Father who has qualified you to share the lot of His people in the realm of light.

for you know that it is from the Lord that you are going to get your pay in the form of an inheritance; so keep on serving Christ the Lord.

so that we might come into right standing with God through His unmerited favor and become heirs of eternal life in accordance with our hope.

Listen, my dearly loved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

yes, to an inheritance that is imperishable, unsullied, and unfading, which is kept in heaven for you

never returning evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but blessing instead, because it was for this that you were called, to obtain the blessing of heirs.

Being

He foreordained us to become His sons by adoption through Christ Jesus, to carry out the happy choice of His will,

The purpose

He has made known to us the secret of His will, which is in accordance with His purpose which He planned in Christ,

General references

who has been making this known from ages past.'

in accordance with the eternal purpose which God executed in the gift of Christ Jesus our Lord.