Ephesians 1:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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2 Peter 3:14

General references

Luke 1:75

Acts 15:18

Ephesians 3:11

Bible References

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At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children.

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will obey my voice, and they will all become one flock, with one shepherd.

When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,

for I am with you, and no one shall attack you or injure you, for I have many people in this city."

We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.

so as to show all the wealth of his glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he has prepared from the beginning to share his glory,

So too at the present time there is a remnant selected by God's mercy.

We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,

For that reason I am ready to submit to anything for the sake of those whom God has chosen, so that they too may gain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory.

Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to arouse faith in those whom God has chosen, and the comprehension of religious truth,

Listen, my dear brothers. Has not God chosen the world's poor to be rich in faith, and to possess the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

whom God the Father has chosen and predestined by the consecration of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ, and to be sprinkled with his blood; God bless you and give you perfect peace.

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

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For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

That we should be delivered from the hands of our enemies,

It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.

As persons chosen by God, then, consecrated and dearly loved, you must clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, forbearance.

God has not called us to an unclean life, but to a pure one.

He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,

Yet God's solid foundation stands unshaken, bearing this inscription, "The Lord knows those who belong to him," and "Everyone who uses the name of the Lord must give up evil."

For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men,

For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

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in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless.

and at the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ he will insure your complete vindication.

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

Therefore, dear friends, while waiting for this, make every effort to be found by him unstained, irreproachable, and at peace.

General references

And should serve him in holiness and uprightness, unafraid, In his own presence all our lives.

who has been making this known from of old.'

fulfilling the eternal purpose which God carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord.