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.

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• 1 Pet 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
• Gen 50:20But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
• Rom 5:3–5And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
• 1 Cor 2:9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
• Rom 8:35–39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• Jas 1:3–4Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
• Rom 8:30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
• 2 Tim 1:9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
• 1 Pet 1:7–8That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
• 1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Deut 8:2–3And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Eph 1:9–11Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
• Heb 12:6–12For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
• 2 Cor 4:15–17For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
• Exod 20:6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
• Gal 1:15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
• Zech 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
• 1 Th 5:9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Ps 46:1–2God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
• Neh 1:5And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
• Mark 12:30And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
• Deut 6:5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
• Jas 2:5Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• Eph 3:11According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
• Deut 8:16Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
• 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 seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
• 2 Tim 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
• Rom 9:11(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
• Rom 9:23–24And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
• 1 Jn 4:10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
• Phil 1:19–23For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
• Rom 1:6–7Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• Jer 24:5–7Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
• 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
• 2 Th 1:5–7Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

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