Ephesians 4:24

“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,

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

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.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

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,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

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

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.

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:

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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.’

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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.”

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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,

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

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

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

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

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.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

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

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.

For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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.

having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,