Ephesians 1:5

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

to Himself predestinating us to adoption through Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of His will,

Cross References

Jeremiah 3:19

But I said, How gladly would I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the multitudes of nations! And I said, You shall call Me, My Father; and you shall not turn away from following Me.

Jeremiah 3:4

Have you not just now called to Me, saying, My father, You are the friend of my youth?

Daniel 4:35

And all those living in the earth are counted as nothing. And He does according to His will among the army of Heaven, and among those living in the earth. And no one is able to strike His hand or say to Him, What are You doing?

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it is said to them, You are Not My People, it shall be said to them, Sons of the Living God.

Matthew 1:25

and did not know her until she bore her son, the First-born. And he called His name Jesus.

Matthew 11:26

Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing before You.

Luke 10:21

In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, I praise You, Father, Lord of Heaven and of earth, that You hid these things from the sophisticated and learned and revealed them to babes; yes, Father, because so it was pleasing before You.

Luke 11:32

Men, Ninevites will rise up in the Judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And, behold, a Greater-than-Jonah is here.

Luke 12:32

Do not fear, little flock, because your Father was pleased to give you the kingdom.

John 1:12

But as many as received Him, to them He gave authority to become children of God, to the ones believing into His name,

John 11:52

and not only on behalf of the nation, but that He also might gather the children into one, the ones having been scattered.

John 20:17

Jesus says to her, Do not take hold of Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My God, and your God.

Acts 13:48

And hearing, the nations rejoiced and glorified the Word of the Lord. And as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Romans 8:23

And not only so, but also we ourselves having the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body;

1 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons” and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty. 2 Sam. 7:8, 14; Isa. 43:6

Galatians 3:26

for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:11

in whom we also were chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of the One working all things according to the counsel of His own will,

Ephesians 1:9

making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who is working in you both to will and to work for the sake of His good pleasure.

Colossians 1:19

because all the fullness was pleased to dwell in Him,

2 Thessalonians 1:11

For which we also continually pray concerning you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and would fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness, and work of faith in power,

Hebrews 2:4

God bearing witness with them, both by miraculous signs and wonders, and by various works of power, even by distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will.

1 John 3:1

See what manner of love the Father has given us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Revelation 21:7

The one overcoming will inherit all things, and I will be God to him, and he will be the son to Me.