Ephesians 1:5
+ 1:5 Some interpreters place the last phrase of Eph. 1:4 in love with verse 5 so that it reads, In love God chose us . God chose us beforehand for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will.
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Jeremiah 3:19As for me, I said, 'How I want to treat you as my son and give you a pleasant land, 1 an inheritance more beautiful than what is in any other nation!' I would have said, 'You will call me “my father”.' 1 I would have said that you would not turn from following me. 1
Hosea 1:10Yet the number of the people of Israel 1 will be like the sand of the seashore, 1 which cannot be measured or counted. 1 It will be that where it was said to them, 1 'You are not my people,' 1 it will be said to them, 1 'You are people of the living God.' 1
Matthew 11:26Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
Luke 11:32The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation of people and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and see, someone greater than Jonah is here.
John 11:52and not only for the nation, but so that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered together into one.
Romans 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 1:4-15
Praise for Spiritual Blessings. ( a. d. 61.) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 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: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us… Read the whole commentary →