Romans 8:29

Those God foreknew he predestined to be made like Christ, so that Jesus would be the firstborn among many brothers. God's goal in salvation is a redeemed family conformed to his Son.

Cross-references · 33

• Eph 1:4–5For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
• Jer 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
• Eph 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
• 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 1:20He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
• Rev 13:8And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.
• 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.”
• 1 Cor 2:7No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
• 1 Cor 15:49And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
• Col 1:15–18The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
• 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—
• 1 Jn 3:2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
• 2 Cor 3:18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
• Rom 11:2God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:
• John 17:22–23I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one—
• John 17:16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
• Phil 3:21who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
• Eph 4:24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
• Rev 1:5–6and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
• Exod 33:17So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”
• Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
• Exod 33:12Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’
• Heb 1:5–6For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?
• Ps 1:6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
• John 17:26And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
• Rom 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
• Matt 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
• John 17:19For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
• Heb 2:11–15For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
• John 20:17“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
• Ps 89:27I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
• Matt 25:40And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

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