1 Peter 1:20 Cross References - Goodspeed

²⁰ who was predestined for this before the foundation of the world, but was revealed only at the end of the ages,

²⁵ You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the agreement that God made with your forefathers when he said to Abraham, 'Through your posterity all the families of the earth will be blessed.' ²⁶ It was to you that God first sent his servant after he had raised him from the dead, to bless you by making every one of you turn from his wickedness."

²⁵ For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)—

²⁵ To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed, ²⁶ and at the command of the eternal God made known through the writings of the prophets to all the heathen, to lead them to obedience and faith—

⁴ but when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law,

⁴ Through him he chose us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in his sight in love.

¹⁰ and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ—

⁹ and making clear how the secret purpose is to be worked out which has been hidden away for ages in God the creator of all things,

¹¹ fulfilling the eternal purpose which God carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁶ that secret, hidden from the ages and generations, but now disclosed to those who are consecrated to him,

⁹ He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus, ¹⁰ which has now been revealed through the appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has taken away the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the good news,

² in the hope of eternal life, which God who never lies promised ages ago, ³ and revealed at the proper time in his message, through the preaching with which I have been intrusted at the command of God our Savior,

² but in these latter days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he had destined to possess everything, and through whom he had made the world.

²⁶ for then he would have had to suffer death over and over, ever since the creation of the world. But, as it is, once for all at the close of the age he has appeared, to put an end to sin by his sacrifice.

² for life has been revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and announce to you that eternal life that was with the Father and has been revealed to us—

⁵ You know that he appeared to take our sins away, and that there is no sin in him.

⁸ Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared—to undo the devil's work.

⁹ God's love for us has been revealed in this way—that God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him. ¹⁰ The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not from the foundation of the world been written in the slain Lamb's book of life, will worship it.