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everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
Isaiah 43:7 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”
  • KJV Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
  • NKJV Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”
  • NASB Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.”
  • NLT Bring all who claim me as their God, for I have made them for my glory. It was I who created them.’”

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Quick answer

All who are called by God's name were created, formed, and made for His glory. It reveals that the purpose of God's people is to glorify Him.

Overview

God grounds His regathering in the very purpose of creation: His glory. Bearing His name means belonging to Him and reflecting His honor. This purpose is fulfilled in Christ, in whom redeemed people from all nations are made to display the glory of God's grace.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 27

  • Eph 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
  • Isa 43:21The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.
  • Eph 1:12in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.
  • 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
  • Rom 9:23What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
  • Isa 62:2–5Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.
  • Isa 43:1Now this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
  • Ps 100:3Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
  • Isa 48:11For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
  • Isa 56:5I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
  • John 15:8This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
  • Ps 50:23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
  • Rev 3:12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
  • Jer 33:16In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
  • Isa 29:23For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
  • Ps 95:6–7O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
  • John 3:3–7Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
  • Acts 11:26and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
  • Eph 2:4–7But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
  • Jas 2:7Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?
  • Eph 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
  • Isa 63:19We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
  • Gal 6:15For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
  • Titus 3:5–7He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
  • 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
  • 1 Pet 4:14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
  • 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Isaiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 43:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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