to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will