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.

General references

Bible References

He also

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

To be

Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
John 17:16
They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
1 Corinthians 15:49
As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's 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 would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
Ephesians 4:24
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Philippians 3:21
who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

That he might

Psalm 89:27
I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."
Matthew 25:40
"The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
John 20:17
Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to 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 to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"
Hebrews 2:11
For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

General references

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