to do so many things as thy hand and thy counsel did foreordain to come to pass.

He predestined and lovingly planned for us to be adopted to Himself as [His own] children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the kind intention and good pleasure of His will—

In Him also we have received an inheritance [a destiny—we were claimed by God as His own], having been predestined (chosen, appointed beforehand) according to the purpose of Him who works everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His will,

who was foreordained for it before the foundation of the world but was brought out to public view at the end of the ages, for the sake of you

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

and he may send Jesus Christ, who was foreordained for you,

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.