KJV King James Version
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
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1 Peter 1:20
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
WEB World English Bible
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,
ASV American Standard Version
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,
Surrounding context — 1 Peter 1
17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
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προεγνωσμένουG4267 · proginōskōto know/chooseμὲνG3303 · menon the other handπρὸG4253 · probeforeκαταβολῆςG2602 · katabolēbeginningκόσμου,G2889 · kosmosworldφανερωθέντοςG5319 · phaneroōto revealδὲG1161 · dethenἐπ᾽G1909 · epiupon/to/againstἐσχάτουG2078 · eschatoslast/leastτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoχρόνωνG5550 · chronostimeδι᾽G1223 · diathrough/because ofὑμᾶςG4771 · suyou
Cross-references
Ephesians 1:4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:2 Timothy 1:9-10Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,Hebrews 9:26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.Revelation 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.Titus 1:2-3In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;Hebrews 1:2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;Colossians 1:26[Even] the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:Micah 5:2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.Ephesians 3:9And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:Ephesians 1:10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him:Galatians 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,Romans 16:25-26Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,Ephesians 3:11According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:1 John 1:2(For the life was manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)Proverbs 8:23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.1 John 4:9-10In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.Romans 3:25Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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