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 1:4–5even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
• Jer 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
• Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
• 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 1:20who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
• Rev 13:8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
• 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.”
• 1 Cor 2:7But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• 1 Cor 15:49As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.
• Col 1:15–18who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
• Rom 9:23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
• 1 Jn 3:2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
• 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
• Rom 11:2God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
• John 17:22–23The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
• John 17:16They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
• Phil 3:21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
• Eph 4:24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
• Rev 1:5–6and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• Exod 33:17Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
• Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
• Exod 33:12Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people:’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’
• Heb 1:5–6For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”
• Ps 1:6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
• John 17:26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
• Rom 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
• Matt 7:23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
• John 17:19For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
• Heb 2:11–15For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
• John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
• Ps 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
• Matt 25:40“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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