Romans 8:28

God works all things together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose. No circumstance, however painful, lies outside his sovereign and loving design for his people.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Pet 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
• Gen 50:20As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
• Rom 5:3–5Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
• 1 Cor 2:9Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
• Rom 8:35–39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
• Jas 1:3–4because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
• Rom 8:30And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
• 2 Tim 1:9He 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.
• 1 Pet 1:7–8so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 1:9God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
• Deut 8:2–3Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
• Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
• Eph 1:9–11And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
• Heb 12:6–12For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
• 2 Cor 4:15–17All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may overflow in thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
• Exod 20:6but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
• Gal 1:15But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
• Zech 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
• 1 Th 5:9For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Ps 46:1–2For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
• Neh 1:5Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
• Mark 12:30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
• Deut 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
• 1 Jn 4:19We love because He first loved us.
• Eph 3:11according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Deut 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
• 1 Jn 5:2–3By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
• Ps 69:36The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.
• 2 Tim 2:19Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”
• Rom 9:11Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
• Rom 9:23–24What 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—
• 1 Jn 4:10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
• Phil 1:19–23because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for my deliverance.
• Rom 1:6–7And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
• Jer 24:5–7“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
• 2 Cor 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
• 2 Th 1:5–7All this is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment. And so you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.

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