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 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
• Gen 50:20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.
• Rom 5:3–5Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
• 1 Cor 2:9But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
• Rom 8:35–39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• Jas 1:3–4knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
• Rom 8:30Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• 2 Tim 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• 1 Pet 1:7–8that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• 1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
• Deut 8:2–3You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Eph 1:9–11making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
• Heb 12:6–12For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”
• 2 Cor 4:15–17For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
• Exod 20:6and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
• Gal 1:15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
• Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
• 1 Th 5:9For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Ps 46:1–2For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
• Neh 1:5and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
• Mark 12:30you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
• Deut 6:5You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
• 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?
• 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 you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your 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 children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
• 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
• Rom 9:11For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
• Rom 9:23–24and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
• 1 Jn 4:10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
• Phil 1:19–23For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
• Rom 1:6–7among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• Jer 24:5–7“Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
• 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
• 2 Th 1:5–7This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Greek word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.