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

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

To be

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.

'Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;

and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

That he might

I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.

for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to me ye did it.

Jesus saith to her, 'Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

For to which of the messengers said He ever, 'My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, 'I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'

for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

General references

then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one -- the first-born.

according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,