Galatians 4:9

“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,

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

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

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

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.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

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

“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

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:

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

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.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

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

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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

Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

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.’

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”

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.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

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.

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

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

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

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.”

hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

“Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

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 now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

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.”

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.