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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.

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Bible References

He also

Ephesians 1:5
having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
1 Peter 1:20
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,

To be

Romans 13:14
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof .
John 17:16
They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
1 Corinthians 15:49
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
Ephesians 1:4
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
Ephesians 4:24
and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Philippians 3:21
who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

That he might

Psalm 89:27
I also will make him my first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.
Matthew 12:50
For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew 25:40
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.
John 20:17
Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended unto the Father: but go unto my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.
Colossians 1:15
who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
Hebrews 1:5
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a Son?
Hebrews 2:11
For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;

General references

Deuteronomy 21:16
then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born:
Ephesians 3:11
according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

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