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Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.”
Isaiah 43:7 · New American 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.
  • BSB everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
  • NKJV Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”
  • 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 his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
  • Isa 43:21the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
  • Eph 1:12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
  • 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • Rom 9:23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
  • Isa 62:2–5The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you will be called by a new name, which Yahweh‘s mouth will name.
  • Isa 43:1But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
  • Ps 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
  • Isa 48:11For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
  • Isa 56:5I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name, that will not be cut off.
  • John 15:8“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
  • Ps 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
  • Rev 3:12He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
  • Jer 33:16In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely; and this is the name by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”
  • Isa 29:23But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
  • Ps 95:6–7Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
  • John 3:3–7Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
  • Acts 11:26When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
  • Eph 2:4–7But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
  • Jas 2:7Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
  • Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
  • Isa 63:19We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
  • Gal 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
  • Titus 3:5–7not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
  • 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
  • 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. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
  • 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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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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