Ephesians 1:11
Good News Translation
All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning.

New Revised Standard Version
In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will,

Contemporary English Version
God always does what he plans, and this is why he appointed Christ to choose us.

New American Bible
In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will,

Douay-Rheims Bible
In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

we.

Ephesians 1:14 Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory.

Psalm 37:18 The Lord knoweth the days of the undefiled; and their inheritance shall be for ever.

Acts 20:32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, who is able to build up and to give an inheritance among all the sanctified.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Romans 8:17 And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

Galatians 3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:

Colossians 3:24 Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.

Titus 3:7 That, being justified by his grace, we may be heirs according to hope of life everlasting.

James 2:5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

1 Peter 1:4 Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you,

1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

being.

Ephesians 1:5 Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:

according.

Isaiah 46:10,11 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: . . .

the purpose.

Ephesians 1:9 That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,

the counsel.

Ephesians 1:8 Which hath superabounded in us, in all wisdom and prudence,

Job 12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

Proverbs 8:14 By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.

Isaiah 5:19 That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.

Isaiah 28:29 This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his counsel wonderful, and magnify justice.

Isaiah 40:13,14 Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him? . . .

Jeremiah 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and heard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it?

Jeremiah 32:19 Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Zechariah 6:13 Yea, he shall build a temple to the Lord: and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit, and rule upon his throne: and he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Acts 2:23 This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

Acts 4:28 To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done.

Acts 20:27 For I have not spread to declare unto you all, the counsel of God.

Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

Hebrews 6:17 Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

Context
Spiritual Blessings
10In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him. 11In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will. 12That we may be unto the praise of his glory: we who before hoped in Christ:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnaces of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present day.

Job 33:29
Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one.

Isaiah 25:1
O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt O thee, and give glory to thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy designs of old faithful, amen.

Acts 13:48
And the Gentiles hearing it were glad and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting believed.

Romans 8:28
And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

Romans 8:29
For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren.

Romans 8:30
And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Romans 9:11
For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God according to election might stand):

Ephesians 1:5
Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:

Ephesians 1:9
That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,

Ephesians 1:14
Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 1:18
The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

Ephesians 3:11
According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

Hebrews 6:17
Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

Ephesians 1:10
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