But Jehovah hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not (yet) done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.
to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass.
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, (even) to them that are called according to (his) purpose.
for (the children) being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,
according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;