1 Peter 1:20

Christ was foreknown before creation but revealed in these last times for the believers' sake. God's plan to save through Christ was settled before the world began.

Cross-references · 21

• Eph 1:4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
• 2 Tim 1:9–10He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
• Heb 9:26Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
• Rev 13:8And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.
• Titus 1:2–3in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
• Heb 1:2But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.
• Mic 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
• Col 1:26the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints.
• Eph 3:9and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
• Eph 3:11according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rom 16:25–26Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
• Gal 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Eph 1:10as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.
• Gen 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
• 1 Jn 1:2And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.
• 1 Jn 4:9–10This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
• Prov 8:23From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.
• Acts 3:25–26And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
• Rom 3:25God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
• 1 Jn 3:8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
• 1 Jn 3:5But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

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