Ephesians 1:5
marking us out beforehand unto sonship, through Jesus Christ, for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6Unto the praise of the glory of his favour wherewith he favoured us in the Beloved One,—
Cross References
Jeremiah 3:19Though, I myself, had said,—How can I put thee among the sons, And give thee a land to be coveted, An inheritance of beauty, of the hosts of nations? Yet I said, My father, shalt thou call me, And away from me, shalt thou not turn.
Hosea 1:10Yet shall the number of the sons of Israel become like the sand of the sea, which can neither he measured, nor numbered,—and it shall come to pass, in the place where it used to be said to them, No people of mine, are ye, it shall be said to them, Sons of a Living God!
Matthew 11:26Yea, O Father! That, so, it hath become, a delight, before thee.
Luke 11:32Men of Nineveh, will rise up, in the judgment, with this generation, and will condemn it; because they repented into the proclamation of Jonah,—and lo! something more than Jonah, here.
John 11:52and, not for the nation only, but that, the scattered children of God also, he might gather together into one.
Romans 8:14For, as many as by God’s Spirit are being led, the same, are God’s sons,—
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 →