1Pet 1:20 Cross References

1 Peter 1:20

20: God chose him for this purpose long before the world began, but now in these final days, he was sent to the earth for all to see. And he did this for you.

2 Timothy 1:9

  1. It is God who saved us and chose us to live a holy life. He did this not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan long before the world began--to show his love and kindness to us through Christ Jesus.
  2. And now he has made all of this plain to us by the coming of Christ Jesus, our Savior, who broke the power of death and showed us the way to everlasting life through the Good News.

Ephesians 1:4

  1. Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.

Hebrews 9:26

  1. If that had been necessary, he would have had to die again and again, ever since the world began. But no! He came once for all time, at the end of the age, to remove the power of sin forever by his sacrificial death for us.

Titus 1:2

  1. This truth gives them the confidence of eternal life, which God promised them before the world began--and he cannot lie.
  2. And now at the right time he has revealed this Good News, and we announce it to everyone. It is by the command of God our Savior that I have been trusted to do this work for him.

Revelation 13:8

  1. And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast. They are the ones whose names were not written in the Book of Life, which belongs to the Lamb who was killed before the world was made.

Colossians 1:26

  1. This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to his own holy people.

Hebrews 1:2

  1. But now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he made the universe and everything in it.

Ephesians 3:9

  1. I was chosen to explain to everyone this plan that God, the Creator of all things, had kept secret from the beginning.

Ephesians 3:11

  1. This was his plan from all eternity, and it has now been carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 3:25

  1. For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God's anger against us. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us. God was being entirely fair and just when he did not punish those who sinned in former times.

1 John 4:9

  1. God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.
  2. This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

Proverbs 8:23

  1. I was appointed in ages past, at the very first, before the earth began.

1 John 1:2

  1. This one who is life from God was shown to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and announce to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was shown to us.

Galatians 4:4

  1. But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.

Ephesians 1:10

  1. And this is his plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ--everything in heaven and on earth.

Micah 5:2

  1. But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village in Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you, one whose origins are from the distant past.

Acts 3:25

  1. You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, 'Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.'
  2. When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways."

Genesis 3:15

  1. From now on, you and the woman will be enemies, and your offspring and her offspring will be enemies. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

Romans 16:25

  1. God is able to make you strong, just as the Good News says. It is the message about Jesus Christ and his plan for you Gentiles, a plan kept secret from the beginning of time.
  2. But now as the prophets foretold and as the eternal God has commanded, this message is made known to all Gentiles everywhere, so that they might believe and obey Christ.

1 John 3:8

  1. But when people keep on sinning, it shows they belong to the Devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy these works of the Devil.

1 John 3:5

  1. And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, for there is no sin in him.
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