Ephesians 1:9

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 33:11

The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart to all generations.

Jeremiah 2:29

Why will you plead with Me? You all have transgressed against Me, says the Lord.

Matthew 13:11

He answered them, “It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

Luke 12:32

“Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Luke 2:14

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, and good will toward men.”

Acts 13:48

When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And all who were ordained to eternal life believed.

Acts 2:23

You have taken Him, who was handed over to you by the ordained counsel and foreknowledge of God, and by lawless hands have crucified and killed Him,

Acts 4:28

to do what Your hand and Your counsel had foreordained to be done.

Romans 11:25

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you be wise in your own estimation, for a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

Galatians 1:12

For I neither received it from man, neither was I taught it, except by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 1:15

But when it pleased God, who set me apart since I was in my mother’s womb and called me by His grace,

Galatians 1:16

to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the nations, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,

Ephesians 1:11

In Him also we have received an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,

Ephesians 1:8

which He lavished on us in all wisdom and insight,

Ephesians 3:11

according to the eternal purpose which He completed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

1 Timothy 3:16

Without question, great is the mystery of godliness: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up into glory.

2 Timothy 1:9

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not by our works, but by His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,