Ephesians 1:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Eph 1:11 : 11 in 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,
  • Rom 8:29-30 : 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.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;
  • Rom 8:14-17 : 14 for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God; 15 for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba -- Father.' 16 The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God; 17 and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
  • Rom 8:23 : 23 And not only `so', but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting -- the redemption of our body;
  • Gal 3:26 : 26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
  • Gal 4:5-6 : 5 that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive; 6 and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'
  • John 1:12 : 12 but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name,
  • John 11:52 : 52 and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.
  • 2 Thess 1:11 : 11 for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power,
  • Heb 2:10-15 : 10 For it was becoming to Him, because of whom `are' the all things, and through whom `are' the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect, 11 for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified `are' all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;' 13 and again, `Behold I and the children that God did give to me.' 14 Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil -- 15 and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,
  • Heb 12:5-9 : 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, 6 for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' 7 if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? 8 and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. 9 Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
  • Phil 2:13 : 13 for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
  • Rev 21:7 : 7 he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him -- a God, and he shall be to me -- the son,
  • Luke 10:21 : 21 In that hour was Jesus glad in the Spirit, and said, `I do confess to thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that Thou didst hide these things from wise men and understanding, and didst reveal them to babes; yes, Father, because so it became good pleasure before Thee.
  • Jer 3:4 : 4 Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, `My father, Thou `art' the leader of my youth?
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father -- ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done?
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye `are' not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God;
  • Eph 1:9 : 9 having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,
  • 1 Cor 1:21 : 21 for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'
  • Rom 9:11-16 : 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 -- 12 `The greater shall serve the less;' 13 according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.' 14 What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness `is' with God? let it not be! 15 for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;' 16 so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:
  • 1 Cor 1:1 : 1 Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
  • Matt 11:26 : 26 Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before Thee.
  • Luke 11:32 : 32 `Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah; and lo, greater than Jonah here!
  • John 20:17 : 17 Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'

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

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    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,

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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;

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