KJV King James Version
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
WEB World English Bible
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
ASV American Standard Version
For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
Surrounding context — Romans 8
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatοὓςG3739 · hos, hēwhichπροέγνω,G4267 · proginōskōto know/chooseκαὶG2532 · kaiandπροώρισενG4309 · proorizōto predestineσυμμόρφουςG4832 · summorphosconformedτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoεἰκόνοςG1504 · eikōnimageτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoυἱοῦG5207 · uhiossonαὐτοῦG846 · autosit/s/heεἰςG1519 · eistowardτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoεἶναιG1511 · einaito existαὐτὸνG846 · autosit/s/heπρωτότοκονG4416 · prōtotokosfirstbornἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongπολλοῖςG4183 · polusmuchἀδελφοῖς·G80 · adelphosbrother
Cross-references
Ephesians 1:4-5According 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:Jeremiah 1:5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.Ephesians 1:11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:2 Timothy 1:9Who 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,1 Peter 1:20Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,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.2 Timothy 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.1 Corinthians 2:7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our glory:1 Peter 1:2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.1 Corinthians 15:49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.Colossians 1:15-18Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:Romans 9:23And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,1 John 3:2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.Romans 11:2God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,John 17:22-23And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:John 17:16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.Philippians 3:21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
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