Ephesians 1:5

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.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

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,

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

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

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

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

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

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

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

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,

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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

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

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

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

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

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.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

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

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

In his name, the nations will hope.”

Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

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

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

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?”

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

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.”

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

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

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

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

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,