Thematic Bible: What has been ordained
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Ordination » What has been ordained
But it is a mysterious divine wisdom that we impart, hitherto kept secret, and destined by God before the world began for our glory.
Verse Concepts
Do you not know that those who do the work about the Temple get their living from the Temple, and those who attend to the altar divide the sacrifices with the altar? In just that way the Lord directed that those who preach the good news should get their living from it.
For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God. It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it. For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.
and the command that should have meant life in my case proved to mean death.
Verse Concepts
Everyone must obey the authorities that are over him, for no authority can exist without the permission of God; the existing authorities have been established by him, so that anyone who resists the authorities sets himself in opposition to what God has ordained, and those who oppose him will bring down judgment upon themselves.
Then what about the Law? It was a later addition, designed to produce transgressions, until the descendant to which the promise was made should come, and it was enacted by means of angels, through an intermediary; though an intermediary implies more than one party, while God is but one.
Related Topics
- Authority, of human institutions
- Beginning
- Effect Of The Law
- Elect
- Fate Of The Godly
- Foreordained Plans
- Glory
- God Planning Of Old
- God's Plan
- God's Plan For Us