But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
(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;)
According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: