Matthew 28:10

“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:

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.

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

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.’

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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.”

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

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

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.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the congregation I will sing your praise.”

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.”

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

that men may declare Yahweh’s name in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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.

But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.

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

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 following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

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.

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

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

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

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.

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,

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

“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.

But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.”

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

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

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

When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

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

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

But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”

However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.”

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.

“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.’

Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!

But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’ ”

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

But he said to them, “It is I. Don’t be afraid.”