Ephesians 1:9

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.

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

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.’ ”

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;

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

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

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?

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.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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.

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

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

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

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

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.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

not of works, that no one would boast.

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.”

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

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

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.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

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,

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

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,

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

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.

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

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

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

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

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

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

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

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,

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

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

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by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

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?

For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

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

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

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

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.

“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.

For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”

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.”

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

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

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.

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

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

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

For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

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

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

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

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

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

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,

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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,

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,