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

General references

Deuteronomy 21:16

Ephesians 3:11

Bible References

He also

He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,

He was chosen

before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the times for you

To be

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.

They are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.

And just as we have borne
the image of the man made of dust,
we will also bear
the image of the heavenly man.

We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at

the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight.

In love

you put on

the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.

He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body, by the power that enables Him to subject everything to Himself.

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is.

That he might

I will also make him My firstborn,
greatest of the kings of the earth.

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven, that person is My brother and sister and mother.”

“And the King will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.

For to which of the angels did He ever say, You are My Son; today I have become Your Father,

or again, I will be His Father, and He will be My Son?

For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To Him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by His blood,

General references

when that man gives what he has to his sons as an inheritance, he is not to show favoritism to the son of the loved wife as his firstborn over the firstborn of the unloved wife.

This is according to His eternal purpose accomplished in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.