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.

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Bible References

He also

Ephesians 1:5
And ordained us before unto himself that we should be chosen before, through Jesus Christ, to be heirs unto himself according to the pleasure of his will,
1 Peter 1:20
which was ordained before the world was made: but was declared in the last times for your sakes.

To be

Romans 13:14
but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.
John 17:16
They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
1 Corinthians 15:49
And as we have born the image of the earthy, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all behold the glory of the Lord with his face open, and we are changed unto the same similitude, from glory to glory, even of the spirit of the Lord.
Ephesians 1:4
according as he had chosen us in him through love, before the foundation of the world was laid, that we should be saints, and without blame before him, through love.
Ephesians 4:24
and put on that new man, which after the image of God is shapen in righteousness, and true holiness.
Philippians 3:21
which shall change into another fashion our vile bodies, that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.
1 John 3:2
Dearly beloved, now are we the sons of God, and yet it doth not appear what we shall be. But we know that when it shall appear, we shall be like him. For we shall see him as he is.

That he might

Psalm 89:27
And I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
Matthew 12:50
For whosoever doth my father's will which is in heaven, the same is my brother, my sister, and my mother."
Matthew 25:40
And the King shall answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.'
John 20:17
Jesus said unto her, "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my father. But go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father, and your father: to my God and your God."
Colossians 1:15
which is the image of the invisible God, first begotten of all creatures:
Hebrews 1:5
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, "Thou art my son, this day begat I thee?" And again, "I will be his father, and he shall be my son."
Hebrews 2:11
Forasmuch as he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause's sake he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ which is a faithful witness, and first begotten of the dead: and Lord over the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

General references

Deuteronomy 21:16
if the firstborn be the son of the hated: then when he dealeth his goods among his children, he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated which is indeed the firstborn:
Ephesians 3:11
according to that eternal purpose, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,