Ephesians 1:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

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  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,
  • Rom 8:28-30 : 28 And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose; 29 because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren; 30 and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?
  • 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!
  • Eph 5:27 : 27 that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;
  • Col 1:22 : 22 in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,
  • 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, 14 to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • Eph 4:2 : 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,
  • Eph 4:15-16 : 15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ; 16 from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.
  • Acts 13:48 : 48 And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe -- as many as were appointed to life age-during;
  • Titus 1:1-2 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that `is' according to piety, 2 upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
  • Rev 13:8 : 8 And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;
  • Rev 17:8 : 8 `The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,
  • Acts 18:10 : 10 because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'
  • John 15:16 : 16 `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;
  • Isa 42:1 : 1 Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.
  • Isa 65:8-9 : 8 Thus said Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one hath said, `Destroy it not for a blessing `is' in it,' So I do for My servants' sake, not to destroy the whole. 9 And I have brought out from Jacob a seed, And from Judah a possessor of My mount, And possess it do My chosen ones, And My servants do dwell there. 10 And Sharon hath been for the habitation of a flock, And the valley of Achor for the lying down of a herd, For My people who have sought Me.
  • Matt 11:25-26 : 25 At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes. 26 Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before Thee.
  • Matt 24:22 : 22 And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.
  • Matt 24:24 : 24 for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.
  • Matt 24:31 : 31 and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.
  • Luke 1:74-75 : 74 To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered, 75 To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.
  • John 10:16 : 16 and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.
  • Deut 7:6-7 : 6 for a holy people `art' thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who `are' on the face of the ground. 7 `Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye `are' the least of all the peoples,
  • Ps 135:4 : 4 For Jacob hath Jah chosen for Himself, Israel for His peculiar treasure.
  • Isa 41:8-9 : 8 -- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover, 9 Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou `art', I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.
  • Rom 8:33 : 33 Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God `is' He that is declaring righteous,
  • Rom 9:23-24 : 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us -- 24 not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,
  • Rom 11:5-6 : 5 So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been; 6 and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.
  • 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
  • Col 2:2 : 2 that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,
  • John 17:24 : 24 `Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
  • 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, 6 and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety, 7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love; 8 for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ, 9 for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins; 10 wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,
  • 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,
  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.
  • Titus 2:11-12 : 11 For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, 12 teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,
  • 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that `is' in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

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    5having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

    6to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

    7in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

    8in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

    9having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

    10in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;

    11in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

    12for our being to the praise of His glory, `even' those who did first hope in the Christ,

  • Eph 1:3
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    3Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

  • Eph 2:10
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    10for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

  • 2 Thess 2:13
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    13And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

  • Eph 2:3-7
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    3among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

    4and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

    5even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

    6and did raise `us' up together, and did seat `us' together in the heavenly `places' in Christ Jesus,

    7that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

  • 1 Pet 1:19-20
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    19but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --

    20foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

  • Eph 3:11
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    11according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

  • 1 Thess 1:4
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    4having known, brethren beloved, by God, your election,

  • Col 1:12-14
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    12Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

    13who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate `us' into the reign of the Son of His love,

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  • Rom 8:29-30
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    29because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

    30and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.

  • Jas 1:18
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    18having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

  • Eph 1:14
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    14which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

  • 1 Pet 1:2-4
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    2according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

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    4to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

  • 1 Cor 1:27-28
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    27but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;

    28and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --

  • Gal 1:4
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    4who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

  • 1 John 4:19
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    19we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;

  • Eph 5:27
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    27that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

  • Col 1:22
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    22in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

  • 1 Thess 4:7
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    7for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

  • Rom 1:2
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    2which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings --

  • 2 Cor 1:21
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    21and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, `is' God,

  • Titus 2:14
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    14who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

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    3As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,

  • Jude 1:24
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    24And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set `you' in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

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    5(not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

  • 1 John 4:10
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    10in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

  • Rom 9:11
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    11(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

  • Rom 9:23
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    23and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --

  • Gal 1:15
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    15and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called `me' through His grace --

  • 1 John 4:17
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    17In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we -- we also are in this world;