Romans 8:29

“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.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

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,

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

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

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

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.

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

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:

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

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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.

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.

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;

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

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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 next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”

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.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

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.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

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.

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.

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

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

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.”

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.

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

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

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

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:

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.

Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

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

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.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

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.

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

not of works, that no one would boast.

“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.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

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

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When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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

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

Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.

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

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

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.”

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

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

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.’ ”

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

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

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.

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

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

But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—

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.

and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.

Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.