Ephesians 3:9 Cross References

Ephesians 3:9

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

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.

Colossians 3:3

  1. For you died when Christ died, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.

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.

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.

Matthew 13:35

  1. This fulfilled the prophecy that said, "I will speak to you in parables. I will explain mysteries hidden since the creation of the world."

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.

Acts 15:18

  1. he who made these things known long ago.'

Psalms 33:6

  1. The LORD merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born.

1 Peter 1:20

  1. 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.

Matthew 10:27

  1. What I tell you now in the darkness, shout abroad when daybreak comes. What I whisper in your ears, shout from the housetops for all to hear!

John 5:19

  1. Jesus replied, "I assure you, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

Colossians 1:23

  1. But you must continue to believe this truth and stand in it firmly. Don't drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed by God to proclaim it.

John 5:17

  1. But Jesus replied, "My Father never stops working, so why should I?"

1 Corinthians 2:7

  1. No, the wisdom we speak of is the secret wisdom of God, which was hidden in former times, though he made it for our benefit before the world began.

John 1:1

  1. In the beginning the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God.
  2. He was in the beginning with God.
  3. He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn't make.

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.
  2. 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.

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.

Matthew 28:19

  1. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 3:16

  1. Without question, this is the great mystery of our faith: Christ appeared in the flesh and was shown to be righteous by the Spirit. He was seen by angels and was announced to the nations. He was believed on in the world and was taken up into heaven.

Isaiah 44:24

  1. The LORD, your Redeemer and Creator, says: "I am the LORD, who made all things. I alone stretched out the heavens. By myself I made the earth and everything in it.

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 3:3

  1. But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a person who builds a fine house deserves more praise than the house itself.
  2. For every house has a builder, but God is the one who made everything.

Ephesians 3:3

  1. As I briefly mentioned earlier in this letter, God himself revealed his secret plan to me.
  2. As you read what I have written, you will understand what I know about this plan regarding Christ.
  3. God did not reveal it to previous generations, but now he has revealed it by the Holy Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets.

Matthew 25:34

  1. Then the King will say to those on the right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

John 10:30

  1. The Father and I are one."

Luke 24:47

  1. With my authority, take this message of repentance to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem: 'There is forgiveness of sins for all who turn to me.'

2 Timothy 4:17

  1. But the Lord stood with me and gave me strength, that I might preach the Good News in all its fullness for all the Gentiles to hear. And he saved me from certain death.

Mark 16:15

  1. And then he told them, "Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone, everywhere.
  2. Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned.

Colossians 1:16

  1. Christ is the one through whom God created everything in heaven and earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see--kings, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities. Everything has been created through him and for him.
  2. He existed before everything else began, and he holds all creation together.

Revelation 4:11

  1. "You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created."

Revelation 17:8

  1. The beast you saw was alive but isn't now. And yet he will soon come up out of the bottomless pit and go to eternal destruction. And the people who belong to this world, whose names were not written in the Book of Life from before the world began, will be amazed at the reappearance of this beast who had died.

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.
  2. The Son reflects God's own glory, and everything about him represents God exactly. He sustains the universe by the mighty power of his command. After he died to cleanse us from the stain of sin, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God of heaven.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

  1. As for us, we always thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters loved by the Lord. We are thankful that God chose you to be among the first to experience salvation, a salvation that came through the Spirit who makes you holy and by your belief in the truth.

Revelation 14:6

  1. And I saw another angel flying through the heavens, carrying the everlasting Good News to preach to the people who belong to this world--to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
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