Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we were given an inheritance, foreordained by God who works all things according to his will. It assures believers their salvation rests on God's sovereign purpose.

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• Rom 8:28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
• 1 Pet 1:4to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
• Isa 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
• Eph 1:14who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
• Eph 3:11according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;
• Eph 1:5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
• Gal 3:18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
• Rom 8:17and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
• Col 1:12giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
• Titus 3:7that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• Heb 6:17In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
• Acts 20:32Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
• Col 3:24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
• Acts 2:23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• Jer 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
• Isa 40:13–14Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?
• Ps 37:18Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.
• Acts 4:28to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
• Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
• Jer 23:18For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listend to my word, and heard it?
• Deut 4:20But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
• Isa 5:19Who say, “Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”
• 1 Pet 3:9not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
• Isa 28:29This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Zech 6:13even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
• Rom 11:34“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
• Prov 8:14Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
• Job 12:13“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
• Eph 1:8which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

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