Romans 8:28 Cross References

Romans 8:28

28: And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

1 Peter 5:10

  1. In his kindness God called you to his eternal glory by means of Jesus Christ. After you have suffered a little while, he will restore, support, and strengthen you, and he will place you on a firm foundation.

James 1:12

  1. God blesses the people who patiently endure testing. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

Genesis 50:20

  1. As far as I am concerned, God turned into good what you meant for evil. He brought me to the high position I have today so I could save the lives of many people.

Romans 5:3

  1. We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us--they help us learn to endure.
  2. And endurance develops strength of character in us, and character strengthens our confident expectation of salvation.
  3. And this expectation will not disappoint us. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

Romans 8:35

  1. Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death?
  2. (Even the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep." )
  3. No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
  4. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels can't, and the demons can't. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away.
  5. Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 2:9

  1. That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him."

James 1:3

  1. For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
  2. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.

Romans 8:30

  1. 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.

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.

1 Peter 1:7

  1. These trials are only to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold--and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. So if your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
  2. You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him, you trust him; and even now you are happy with a glorious, inexpressible joy.

1 Corinthians 1:9

  1. God will surely do this for you, for he always does just what he says, and he is the one who invited you into this wonderful friendship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Hebrews 12:6

  1. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes those he accepts as his children."
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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?
  5. For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God's discipline is always right and good for us because it means we will share in his holiness.

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.
  3. 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.

Revelation 3:19

  1. I am the one who corrects and disciplines everyone I love. Be diligent and turn from your indifference.

Deuteronomy 8:2

  1. Remember how the LORD your God led you through the wilderness for forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would really obey his commands.
  2. Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people need more than bread for their life; real life comes by feeding on every word of the LORD.

Exodus 20:6

  1. But I lavish my love on those who love me and obey my commands, even for a thousand generations.

Zechariah 13:9

  1. I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure, just as gold and silver are refined and purified by fire. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, `These are my people,' and they will say, `The LORD is our God.'"

2 Corinthians 4:15

  1. All of these things are for your benefit. And as God's grace brings more and more people to Christ, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory.
  2. That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.
  3. For our present troubles are quite small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great glory that will last forever!

Nehemiah 1:5

  1. Then I said, "O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps his covenant of unfailing love with those who love him and obey his commands,

Galatians 1:15

  1. But then something happened! For it pleased God in his kindness to choose me and call me, even before I was born! What undeserved mercy!

Mark 12:30

  1. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.'

Psalms 46:1

  1. God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.
  2. So we will not fear, even if earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

  1. For God decided to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to pour out his anger on us.

1 John 4:19

  1. We love each other as a result of his loving us first.

Ephesians 3:11

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

Deuteronomy 8:16

  1. He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.

James 2:5

  1. Listen to me, dear brothers and sisters. Hasn't God chosen the poor in this world to be rich in faith? Aren't they the ones who will inherit the Kingdom he promised to those who love him?

Deuteronomy 6:5

  1. And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

1 John 5:2

  1. We know we love God's children if we love God and obey his commandments.
  2. Loving God means keeping his commandments, and really, that isn't difficult.

2 Timothy 2:19

  1. But God's truth stands firm like a foundation stone with this inscription: "The Lord knows those who are his," and "Those who claim they belong to the Lord must turn away from all wickedness."

Philippians 1:19

  1. For I know that as you pray for me and as the Spirit of Jesus Christ helps me, this will all turn out for my deliverance.
  2. For I live in eager expectation and hope that I will never do anything that causes me shame, but that I will always be bold for Christ, as I have been in the past, and that my life will always honor Christ, whether I live or I die.
  3. For to me, living is for Christ, and dying is even better.
  4. Yet if I live, that means fruitful service for Christ. I really don't know which is better.
  5. I'm torn between two desires: Sometimes I want to live, and sometimes I long to go and be with Christ. That would be far better for me,

Jeremiah 24:5

  1. "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: The good figs represent the exiles I sent from Judah to the land of the Babylonians.
  2. I have sent them into captivity for their own good. I will see that they are well treated, and I will bring them back here again. I will build them up and not tear them down. I will plant them and not uproot them.
  3. I will give them hearts that will recognize me as the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me wholeheartedly.

Romans 9:23

  1. He also has the right to pour out the riches of his glory upon those he prepared to be the objects of his mercy--
  2. even upon us, whom he selected, both from the Jews and from the Gentiles.

Psalms 69:36

  1. The descendants of those who obey him will inherit the land, and those who love him will live there in safety.

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.
  2. He called you to salvation when we told you the Good News; now you can share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:1

  1. For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down--when we die and leave these bodies--we will have a home in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.

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,

1 John 4:10

  1. 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.

Romans 1:6

  1. You are among those who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ,
  2. dear friends in Rome. God loves you dearly, and he has called you to be his very own people. May grace and peace be yours from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:5

  1. But God will use this persecution to show his justice. For he will make you worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering,
  2. and in his justice he will punish those who persecute you.
  3. And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with his mighty angels,

Acts 13:48

  1. When the Gentiles heard this, they were very glad and thanked the Lord for his message; and all who were appointed to eternal life became believers.

Galatians 5:8

  1. It certainly isn't God, for he is the one who called you to freedom.

Jeremiah 51:29

  1. Babylon trembles and writhes in pain, for everything the LORD has planned against her stands unchanged. Babylon will be left desolate without a single inhabitant.
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