Ephesians 1:4 Cross References - Riverside

⁴ even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and spotless before him in love.

²⁵ At that time Jesus said, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Yes, Father, I thank thee that such was thy good pleasure.

²² "Unless those days had been shortened none would be saved; but for the sake of the chosen those days will be shortened.

²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen.

³¹ And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet-blast, and they will gather his chosen from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!

⁷⁴ To grant that we, saved from the hands of our enemies, may serve him Without fear ⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

¹⁶ But I have other sheep which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

²⁴ Father, those thou didst give me — I will that they also may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who were predestined to life eternal believed.

¹⁸ who does these things foreknown from of old.'

¹⁰ for I am with you and no one shall attack and harm you, for I have many people in this city."

²⁸ We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those whom he foreknew he also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren. ³⁰ And those whom he predetermined he also called, and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous, and those whom he pronounced righteous he also glorified.

³³ Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? God pronounces them righteous.

²³ and in order to make known the richness of his glory upon the vessels of mercy which he had prepared for glory ²⁴ called us not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

⁵ So at this present time there is a remnant according to a gracious selection. ⁶ But if it is by grace it is no longer because of works, for then grace would be no longer grace.

⁸ He will keep you strong to the end and free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither has circumcision any value nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

¹³ For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not let your freedom be an opportunity for the flesh, but in love be servants to one another.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness,

¹⁰ For we are his work, formed in Christ Jesus for good works in which God had prepared beforehand to have us live.

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, rooted and founded in love,

² with all modesty and gentleness, being slow to anger, bearing with one another in love,

¹⁵ but speaking the truth in love we shall grow wholly into him who is the head, Christ, ¹⁶ from whom the whole body framed together and strengthened by what every joint supplies vigorously, in the measure of each, makes growth in building itself up in love.

² and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor.

²⁷ that he might present to himself the church glorious, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and faultless.

¹⁵ that you may be blameless and pure, children of God, spotless in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the world,

²² by his body of flesh through death, to present you holy and spotless and blameless before him,

² that your hearts may be encouraged and that joined together in love you may reach all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, which is Christ.

¹² Put on, then, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, sympathies, compassions, kindness, humility, gentleness, slowness to anger,

¹² The Lord make you to abound and overflow in love toward one another and toward all men, just as we do toward you,

⁷ God has not called us to live in impurity, but in holiness.

¹³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's making you holy and your own faith in the truth. ¹⁴ To this he called you through the good news that we brought, so that you may share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ It is he who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our deeds but according to his own purpose and grace, given to us in Christ Jesus ages ago

¹⁰ For this reason I am enduring all for the sake of the chosen, that they may gain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹⁹ However, God's solid foundation stands, with this inscription, "The Lord knows his own," and, "Let every one who names the Lord's name turn from wickedness."

¹ PAUL, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to promote the faith of God's chosen and their knowledge of the truths of religion, ² in hope of life eternal, which the God who never lies promised ages ago

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men, ¹² teaching us to renounce all irreligion and worldly passions and to live soberly, justly and piously in this present world,

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and made holy by the Spirit to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace be to you and peace be multiplied.

²⁰ who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of time for your sake

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may proclaim the virtues of him who called you from darkness into his wonderful light.

⁵ for this very reason make it your whole endeavor to supply to your faith virtue, and to your virtue knowledge, ⁶ and to your knowledge self-control, and to your self-control endurance, and to your endurance reverence, ⁷ and to your reverence brotherliness, and to your brotherliness love. ⁸ For when you have these in abundance they make you to be neither idle nor fruitless regarding the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But he who lacks these is blind, dim-sighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. ¹⁰ Therefore endeavor more earnestly, brethren, to make sure that you have been called and chosen. For while doing these things you will never stumble.

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, since you expect this, endeavor earnestly to be found by him in peace, spotless and faultless,

¹⁶ We have come to know and have put our trust in the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God and God remains in him.

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the slain Iamb's Book of Life.

⁸ The Beast which you saw was and is not and will soon come up out of the abyss and go into destruction. And the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life will be amazed when they see the Beast that was and is not and will be.