Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are his.
Ephesians 1:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised In him we have also received an inheritance, because we were predestined according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In Him we also were made [God's] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will, American Standard Version (1901) in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will; Common English Bible We have also received an inheritance in Christ. We were destined by the plan of God, who accomplishes everything according to his design. Catholic Public Domain Version In him, we too are called to our portion, having been predestined in accord with the plan of the One who accomplishes all things by the counsel of his will. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will. |
Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are his.
I possess good advice and sound wisdom; I have understanding and strength.
Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have accomplished wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
This also comes from the Lord of Armies. He gives wondrous advice; he gives great wisdom.
to those who say, ‘Let him hurry up and do his work quickly so that we can see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take place so that we can know it! ’
For who has stood in the council of the Lord to see and hear his word? Who has paid attention to his word and obeyed?
the one great in counsel and powerful in action. Your eyes are on all the ways of the children of men in order to reward each person according to his ways and as the result of his actions.
Yes, he will build the Lord’s temple; he will bear royal splendour and will sit on his throne and rule. There will be a priest on his throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two of them.
When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and honoured the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.
Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.
‘And now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”
to do whatever your hand and your will had predestined to take place.
For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?
and if children, also heirs #– #heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ #– #if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand –
For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise; but God has graciously given it to Abraham through the promise.
The Holy Spirit is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
He made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in Christ
This is according to his eternal purpose accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
But the Lord selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace to be a people for his inheritance, as you are today.
giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.
knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.
He gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession, eager to do good works.
so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
Because God wanted to show his unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, he guaranteed it with an oath,
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing.