Ephesians 3:9 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁹ and making clear how the secret purpose is to be worked out which has been hidden away for ages in God the creator of all things,

²⁷ What I tell you in the dark you must say in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, you must proclaim from the housetops.

³⁵ to fulfil what was said by the prophet, "I will open my mouth in figures, I will utter things that have been hidden since the creation."

³⁴ Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world.

¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all the heathen, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Spirit,

¹⁵ And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation. ¹⁶ He who believes it and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe it will be condemned.

⁴⁷ and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name.

¹ In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine. ² It was he that was with God in the beginning. ³ Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

¹⁷ But he answered them, "My Father is still at work, and I work too."

¹⁹ So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

³⁰ The Father and I are one."

¹⁸ who has been making this known from of old.'

²⁵ To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed, ²⁶ and at the command of the eternal God made known through the writings of the prophets to all the heathen, to lead them to obedience and faith—

⁷ But it is a mysterious divine wisdom that we impart, hitherto kept secret, and destined by God before the world began for our glory.

⁴ Through him he chose us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in his sight in love.

⁹ He has given us perfect insight into his secret purpose and understanding of it, in following out the design he planned to carry out in Christ, ¹⁰ and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ—

³ and how the secret was made known to me by revelation, as I have just briefly written. ⁴ As you read that, you will be able to understand the insight I have into the secret of the Christ ⁵ (which in past ages was not disclosed to mankind as fully as it has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets)

¹⁶ for it was through him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, angelic thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities—all things were created through him and for him. ¹⁷ He existed before all things and he sustains and embraces them all.

²³ if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

²⁶ that secret, hidden from the ages and generations, but now disclosed to those who are consecrated to him,

³ For you have died, and your life now lies hidden with Christ in God.

¹³ We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,

¹⁶ No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

⁹ He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, so that I might make a full presentation of the message and let all the heathen hear it. So I was saved from the jaws of the lion.

² in the hope of eternal life, which God who never lies promised ages ago,

² but in these latter days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he had destined to possess everything, and through whom he had made the world. ³ He is the reflection of God's glory, and the representation of his being, and bears up the universe by his mighty word. He has effected man's purification from sin, and has taken his seat on high at the right hand of God's Majesty,

³ For Jesus is entitled to as much more honor than Moses as the builder of a house is than the house he builds. ⁴ For every house has a builder, and the builder of the universe is God.

²⁰ who was predestined for this before the foundation of the world, but was revealed only at the end of the ages,

¹¹ "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, honor, and power, for you created all things; by your will they existed and were created."

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not from the foundation of the world been written in the slain Lamb's book of life, will worship it.

⁶ Then I saw another angel flying in midair, with eternal good news to announce to the inhabitants of the earth, to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

⁸ The animal that you saw was, and is no more; it is going to come up out of the abyss, but it is to go to destruction. The inhabitants of the earth, whose names from the foundation of the world have not been written in the book of life, will be amazed when they see that the animal was, and is no more, and yet is to come.