Good News TranslationThose whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first among many believers.
New Revised Standard Version
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.
Contemporary English Version
and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so his Son would be the first of many children.
New American Bible
For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
whom.
Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias, how he calleth on God against Israel?
Exodus 33:12,17 And Moses said to the Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth this people; and thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me, especially whereas thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast found favour in my sight. . . .
Psalm 1:6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.
2 Timothy 2:19 But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord.
1 Peter 1:2 According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.
Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.
he also.
Ephesians 1:5,11 Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will: . . .
1 Peter 1:20 Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you:
to be.
Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.
John 17:16,19,22,23,26 They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. . . .
1 Corinthians 15:49 Therefore, as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Ephesians 1:4 As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.
Ephesians 4:24 And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.
Philippians 3:21 Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.
1 John 3:2 Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.
that he might.
Psalm 89:27 And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.
Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew 25:40 And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
John 20:17 Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me: for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren and say to them: I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God.
Colossians 1:15-18 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: . . .
Hebrews 1:5,6 For to which of the angels hath he said at any time: Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? . . .
Hebrews 2:11-15 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying: . . .
Revelation 1:5,6 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood . . .
