Ephesians 3:11

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.”

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.

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.

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.’ ”

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

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,

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

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

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?

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

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

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,

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.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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.

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.

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.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

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

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

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

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,

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.

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

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

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

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

“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.”

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.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

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

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

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

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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,

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 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,

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

Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

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

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

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,

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

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,

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

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

The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.