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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
he predestined us for adoption to himself through Jesus the Messiah, according to the pleasure of his will,
1 Peter 1:20
On the one hand, he was foreknown before the creation of the world, but on the other hand, he was revealed at the end of time for your sake.

To be

Romans 13:14
Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and do not obey your flesh and its desires.
John 17:16
They don't belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.
1 Corinthians 15:49
Just as we have borne the likeness of the man who was made from dust, we will also bear the likeness of the man from heaven.
2 Corinthians 3:18
As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord's Spirit.
Ephesians 1:4
just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love
Ephesians 4:24
and to clothe yourselves with the new nature, which was created according to God's image in righteousness and true holiness.
Philippians 3:21
He will change our unassuming bodies and make them like his glorious body through the power that enables him to bring everything under his authority.
1 John 3:2
Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. We know that when the Messiah is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

That he might

Psalm 89:27
"Indeed, I myself made him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Matthew 12:50
because whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."
Matthew 25:40
The king will answer them, "I tell all of you with certainty, since you did it for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.'
John 20:17
Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
Colossians 1:15
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels did God 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"?
Hebrews 2:11
because both the one who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified all have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus the Messiah, the witness, the faithful one, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

General references

Deuteronomy 21:16
then when he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, he must not give preference to the firstborn of the beloved wife over the firstborn of the unloved wife.
Ephesians 3:11
in keeping with the eternal purpose that God carried out through the Messiah Jesus our Lord,

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