Matthew 7:23

“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.

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.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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.’

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

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

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.”

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.

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.

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;

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

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

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;

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.

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

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

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

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

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

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

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

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 whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.

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

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.”

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

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

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.

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.”

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

“They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

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

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

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.