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 1:4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
• 2 Tim 1:9–10who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• Heb 9:26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
• Rev 13:8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
• Titus 1:2–3in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
• Heb 1:2has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
• Mic 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
• Col 1:26the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
• Eph 3:9and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;
• Eph 3:11according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;
• Rom 16:25–26—
• Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
• Eph 1:10to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
• Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
• 1 Jn 1:2(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
• 1 Jn 4:9–10By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
• Prov 8:23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
• Acts 3:25–26You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.’
• Rom 3:25whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
• 1 Jn 3:8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
• 1 Jn 3:5You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

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