Galatians 4:19

“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,

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

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.

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,

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.

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.

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:

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

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.

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.”

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

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.’

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

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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.”

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

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

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

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

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

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.

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.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

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

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

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.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

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

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

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

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’

Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

Now in return, I speak as to my children: you also open your hearts.

What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.