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According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Direct Ephesians 1:4 text.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans 8:29 predestination text.
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
Direct text on election by God.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Ephesians 1 predestination text.
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.
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:
God works all things by his will.
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
Primary Romans 9 text on election not based on works.
And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
Direct Acts 13:48 wording on ordination to life.
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Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
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Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Supports prior purpose before time began.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
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But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
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To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
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As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
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What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
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Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
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