Romans 8:29

Nothing Can Separate Us From God's Love

²⁸ Now we know that for those who love God all things are working together for good--for those, I mean, whom with deliberate purpose He has called. ²⁹ For those whom He has known beforehand He has also pre-destined to bear the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Eldest in a vast family of brothers; ³⁰ and those whom He has pre-destined He also has called; and those whom He has called He has also declared free from guilt; and those whom He has declared free from guilt He has also crowned with glory.

Conformed to the Image of His Son

Firstborn Among Many Brethren

Firstborn Son

From the Beginning

Image of His Son

Predestined to Be Conformed

Romans 11:2

God has not cast off His People whom He knew beforehand. Or are you ignorant of what Scripture says in speaking of Elijah--how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

1 Corinthians 15:49

And as we have borne a resemblance to the earthy one, let us see to it that we also bear a resemblance to the heavenly One.

Ephesians 1:11

In Him we Jews have been made heirs, having been chosen beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose might carries out in everything the design of His own will,

Philippians 3:21

who, in the exercise of the power which He has even to subject all things to Himself, will transform this body of our humiliation until it resembles His own glorious body.

1 Peter 1:2

chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, with a view to their obedience and to their being sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May more and more grace and peace be granted to you.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from the Lord the Spirit.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

Matthew 25:40

"But the King will answer them, "'In solemn truth I tell you that in so far as you rendered such services to one of the humblest of these my brethren, you rendered them to myself.'

John 17:16

They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Ephesians 1:4-5

even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without blemish in His presence.

1 Peter 1:20

He was pre-destined indeed to this work, even before the creation of the world, but has been plainly manifested in these last days for the sake of you who, through Him,

Matthew 7:23

"And then I will tell them plainly, "'I never knew you: begone from me, you doers of wickedness.'

Matthew 12:50

To obey my Father who is in Heaven--that is to be my brother and my sister and my mother."

John 17:19

and on their behalf I consecrate myself, in order that they may become perfectly consecrated in truth.

John 17:22-23

And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, just as we are one:

John 17:26

And I have made known Thy name to them and will make it known, that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

John 20:17

"Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Romans 9:23

in order to make known His infinite goodness towards the subjects of His mercy whom He has prepared beforehand for glory,

Romans 13:14

On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings.

1 Corinthians 2:7

But in dealing with truths hitherto kept secret we speak of God's wisdom--that hidden wisdom which, before the world began, God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us;

Ephesians 4:24

with that new and better self which has been created to resemble God in the righteousness and holiness which come from the truth.

Colossians 1:15-18

Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God, the Firstborn and Lord of all creation.

2 Timothy 1:9

For He saved us and called us with a holy call, not in accordance with our desserts, but in accordance with His own purpose and the free grace which He bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before the commencement of the Ages,

2 Timothy 2:19

Yet God's solid foundation stands unmoved, bearing this inscription, "The Lord knows those who really belong to Him." And this also, "Let every one who names the Name of the Lord renounce all wickedness."

Hebrews 1:5-6

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "My Son art Thou: I have this day become Thy Father;" and again, "I will be a Father to Him, and He shall be My Son"?

Hebrews 2:11-15

For both He who sanctifies and those whom He is sanctifying have all one Father; and for this reason He is not ashamed to speak of them as His brothers;

Revelation 1:5-6

and from Jesus Christ, the truthful witness, the first of the dead to be born to Life, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with His own blood,

Revelation 13:8

And all the inhabitants of the earth will be found to be worshipping him: every one whose name is not recorded in the Book of Life--the Book of the Lamb who has been offered in sacrifice ever since the creation of the world.