Ephesians 1:5 Cross References

Ephesians 1:5

5: His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.

Ephesians 1:11

  1. Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as he decided long ago.

Romans 8:29

  1. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn, with many brothers and sisters.
  2. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And he gave them right standing with himself, and he promised them his glory.

1 John 3:1

  1. See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children, and we really are! But the people who belong to this world don't know God, so they don't understand that we are his children.

Galatians 4:5

  1. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.
  2. And because you Gentiles have become his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, and now you can call God your dear Father.

Romans 8:14

  1. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
  2. So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into his family--calling him "Father, dear Father."
  3. For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children.
  4. And since we are his children, we will share his treasures--for everything God gives to his Son, Christ, is ours, too. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

Galatians 3:26

  1. So you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

John 1:12

  1. But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

Romans 8:23

  1. And even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also groan to be released from pain and suffering. We, too, wait anxiously for that day when God will give us our full rights as his children, including the new bodies he has promised us.

2 Corinthians 6:18

  1. And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. "

Revelation 21:7

  1. All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.

John 11:52

  1. It was a prediction that Jesus' death would be not for Israel only, but for the gathering together of all the children of God scattered around the world.

Hebrews 12:5

  1. And have you entirely forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you, his children? He said, "My child, don't ignore it when the Lord disciplines you, and don't be discouraged when he corrects you.
  2. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes those he accepts as his children."
  3. As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Whoever heard of a child who was never disciplined?
  4. If God doesn't discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children after all.
  5. Since we respect our earthly fathers who disciplined us, should we not all the more cheerfully submit to the discipline of our heavenly Father and live forever?

Ephesians 1:9

  1. God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure.

Hosea 1:10

  1. Yet the time will come when Israel will prosper and become a great nation. In that day its people will be like the sands of the seashore--too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, `You are not my people,' it will be said, `You are children of the living God.'

2 Thessalonians 1:11

  1. And so we keep on praying for you, that our God will make you worthy of the life to which he called you. And we pray that God, by his power, will fulfill all your good intentions and faithful deeds.

Luke 10:21

  1. Then Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit and said, "O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding the truth from those who think themselves so wise and clever, and for revealing it to the childlike. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way.

1 Corinthians 1:21

  1. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe.

Jeremiah 3:19

  1. "I thought to myself, `I would love to treat you as my own children!' I wanted nothing more than to give you this beautiful land--the finest inheritance in the world. I looked forward to your calling me `Father,' and I thought you would never turn away from me again.

John 20:17

  1. "Don't cling to me," Jesus said, "for I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, my God and your God."

Hebrews 2:10

  1. And it was only right that God--who made everything and for whom everything was made--should bring his many children into glory. Through the suffering of Jesus, God made him a perfect leader, one fit to bring them into their salvation.
  2. So now Jesus and the ones he makes holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters.
  3. For he said to God, "I will declare the wonder of your name to my brothers and sisters. I will praise you among all your people."
  4. He also said, "I will put my trust in him." And in the same context he said, "Here I am--together with the children God has given me."
  5. Because God's children are human beings--made of flesh and blood--Jesus also became flesh and blood by being born in human form. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the Devil, who had the power of death.

Daniel 4:35

  1. All the people of the earth are nothing compared to him. He has the power to do as he pleases among the angels of heaven and with those who live on earth. No one can stop him or challenge him, saying, `What do you mean by doing these things?'

Philippians 2:13

  1. For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.

Jeremiah 3:4

  1. Yet you say to me, `Father, you have been my guide since the days of my youth.

Romans 9:11

  1. But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message proves that God chooses according to his own plan,
  2. not according to our good or bad works.) She was told, "The descendants of your older son will serve the descendants of your younger son."
  3. In the words of the Scriptures, "I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau."
  4. What can we say? Was God being unfair? Of course not!
  5. For God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose."

Luke 11:32

  1. The people of Nineveh, too, will rise up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And now someone greater than Jonah is here--and you refuse to repent.

Matthew 11:26

  1. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way!

1 Corinthians 1:1

  1. This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Sosthenes.

Matthew 1:25

  1. but she remained a virgin until her son was born. And Joseph named him Jesus.
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