Now on the topic of times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the ages began.

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform some miraculous sign.

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,