Ephesians 1:5 Cross References - Riverside

⁵ He predestined us to recognition as sons to himself through Jesus Christ according to the kindness of his will,

²⁵ But he did not live with her as a husband until she had borne a son. He called his name Jesus.

²⁶ Yes, Father, I thank thee that such was thy good pleasure.

²¹ At that hour in exultant joy through the Holy Sprit he said, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and hast revealed them to babes. Yea, Father, I thank thee that such became thy good pleasure.

³² The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it. For they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and indeed more than a Jonah is here.

¹² All who received him — to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

⁵² and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God now scattered far and wide.

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brethren and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive a spirit of bondage leading again to fear, but you received a spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself witnesses with our spirits that we are children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, we are also heirs — heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.

²³ And not the creation alone, but we ourselves also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves in expectation of the sonship, the liberation of our bodies.

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.

¹¹ though the same man was father of both children and they were not yet born and had done nothing good or bad, in order that the purpose of God according to his choice might stand, not according to their works, but according to his call, ¹² it was said to her, "The older shall serve the younger." ¹³ In the same way it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." ¹⁴ What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness on God's part? Never. ¹⁵ For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." ¹⁶ So then it is not a question of the man who wills or who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

¹ PAUL called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and Sosthenes our brother,

²¹ For when in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased to save through the foolishness of our proclamation those who believe.

¹⁸ and will be a Father to you and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord, the Ruler of all."

²⁶ You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

⁵ that he might redeem those who were under Law, that we might receive the recognition as sons. ⁶ Because you are sons, God has sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son crying Abba, Father.

⁹ He has made known to us the mystery of his will according to his grace which he purposed in him

¹¹ In him we were predestined according to the plan of him who works in all things according to the purpose of his will,

¹³ For it is God who is working in you both the willing and the doing because of his kindness.

¹¹ To this end we are always praying for you that our God will make you worthy of the call, and will by his power bring to completion every one of your kind purposes and works of faith,

¹⁰ For it was fitting that he through whom are all things and for whom are all things, when leading many sons to glory, should make the great Leader of their salvation perfect through sufferings. ¹¹ For he who makes holy and they who are made holy are all of one. For this cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, ¹² saying, "I will tell thy name to my brothers. In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to thee," ¹³ and again, "I will trust in him," and again, "Here am I and the children whom God has given me." ¹⁴ Since then the children share in blood and flesh, he himself in the same way shared in them, in order that through death he might defeat him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil, ¹⁵ and set free all those who through fear of death were all their lives doomed to slavery.

⁵ and you have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, do not think slightingly of the discipline of the Lord and be not faint-hearted when reproved by him: ⁶ for whom the Lord loves he disciplines and scourges every son whom he receives as his own." ⁷ It is for discipline that you are enduring. God is laying it upon you as upon sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline, in which all share, then you are bastards and not sons. ⁹ Besides, we had fathers of our flesh who disciplined us and we used to reverence them. Shall we not much more be submissive to the Father of our spirits and live?

¹ SEE what love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God. And so we are. The reason why tho world does not know us is that it did not know him.

⁷ He who conquers shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be to me a son.