Bible Verses About The Plan Of God In Salvation History

And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

Direct passage on the mystery hidden for ages in God

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

Prophets searched and inquired about coming grace

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Direct passage on definite plan and foreknowledge

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Scriptures make wise for salvation through faith in Christ

That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

Fullness of times gathers all things in Christ

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

God sent forth his Son at fullness of time

If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

Mystery of his will purposed in himself

For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

Fullness dwells in Christ

Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Christ fills all in all

Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

Paul's dispensation language

Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Times of restitution spoken by prophets

Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

Mystery hidden for ages and now revealed

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:

All things work according to God's will in Christ

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Unity and fullness language

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ

For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

God's hand and plan predestined events

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

Christ became poor for our sake

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Predestined adoption according to his will

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Hidden wisdom decreed before the ages

Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

Prophets searched about the grace to come

But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

Prophets and obedience of faith

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

God pleased to save through preaching

He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

God of salvation verse

And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

All flesh shall see the salvation of God

And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Seeing the salvation of our God

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

Ages to come and Christ Jesus

Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Christ manifest in last times

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Elect according to foreknowledge of God

For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,

My eyes have seen your salvation

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

Longsuffering during Noah