Ephesians 1:11

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

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.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

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,

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

We love him, because he first loved us.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

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.”

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Behold, they ask me, “Where is Yahweh’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

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.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.

“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”

“All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

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

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?