1 Peter 2:21

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Beloved, now we are children of God. 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.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.

He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

I don’t receive glory from men.

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.