Isaiah 43:13

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.

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

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

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.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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

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

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.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

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.

He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”

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

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power and reigned.

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

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.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

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

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.

“I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.

The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

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

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

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

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

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

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.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

The king of Jericho was told, “Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

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.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

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,

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”