Matthew 12:50

“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.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

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:

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.

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

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

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

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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.’

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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.”

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

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

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

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.

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

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

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

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.

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

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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.

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

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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

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.”

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

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

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

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.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

“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.’

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

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.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.