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According as he hath chosenj us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holyk and without blame before him in love:

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1 Peter 1:2• 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 Peter 1:2)

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Luke 1:75• ⁷⁵In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. (Luke 1:75)

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Col. 1:22• ²²In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: (Col. 1:22)

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Deut. 7:6‑7• ⁶For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
⁷The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: (Deut. 7:6‑7)

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Psa. 135:4• ⁴For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. (Psa. 135:4)

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Isa. 41:8‑9• ⁸But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
⁹Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. (Isa. 41:8‑9)

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Isa. 42:1• ¹Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. (Isa. 42:1)

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Isa. 65:8‑10• ⁸Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
⁹And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
¹⁰And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me. (Isa. 65:8‑10)

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Matt. 11:25‑26• ²⁵At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
²⁶Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. (Matt. 11:25‑26)

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Matt. 24:22,24• ²²And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
²⁴For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. (Matt. 24:22,24)

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Matt. 24:31• ³¹And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matt. 24:31)

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John 10:16• ¹⁶And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. (John 10:16)

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Acts 13:48• ⁴⁸And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. (Acts 13:48)

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Acts 18:10• ¹⁰For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. (Acts 18:10)

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Rom. 8:28,30,33• ²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
³⁰Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
³³Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. (Rom. 8:28,30,33)

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Rom. 9:23‑24• ²³And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
²⁴Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? (Rom. 9:23‑24)

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Rom. 11:5‑6• ⁵Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
⁶And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. (Rom. 11:5‑6)

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2 Thess. 2:13‑14• ¹³But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
¹⁴Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Thess. 2:13‑14)

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2 Tim. 2:10• ¹⁰Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. (2 Tim. 2:10)

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Titus 1:1‑2• ¹Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
²In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; (Titus 1:1‑2)

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James 2:5• ⁵Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? (James 2:5)

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1 Peter 1:2• 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 Peter 1:2)

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1 Peter 2:9• ⁹But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: (1 Peter 2:9)

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Matt. 25:34• ³⁴Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (Matt. 25:34)

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John 17:24• ²⁴Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (John 17:24)

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Acts 15:18• ¹⁸Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. (Acts 15:18)

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1 Peter 1:20• ²⁰Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (1 Peter 1:20)

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Rev. 13:8• 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. (Rev. 13:8)

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Rev. 17:8• ⁸The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. (Rev. 17:8)

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Eph. 2:10• ¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Eph. 2:10)

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Luke 1:74‑75• ⁷⁴That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
⁷⁵In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. (Luke 1:74‑75)

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John 15:16• ¹⁶Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. (John 15:16)

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Rom. 8:28‑29• ²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
²⁹For 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. (Rom. 8:28‑29)

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Col. 3:12• ¹²Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; (Col. 3:12)

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1 Thess. 4:7• ⁷For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. (1 Thess. 4:7)

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2 Tim. 1:9• 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, (2 Tim. 1:9)

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2 Tim. 2:19• 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. (2 Tim. 2:19)

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Titus 2:11‑12• ¹¹For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
¹²Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; (Titus 2:11‑12)

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2 Peter 1:5‑10• ⁵And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
⁶And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
⁷And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
⁸For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
⁹But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
¹⁰Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: (2 Peter 1:5‑10)

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Eph. 5:27• ²⁷That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (Eph. 5:27)

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1 Cor. 1:8• ⁸Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Cor. 1:8)

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Phil. 2:15• ¹⁵That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; (Phil. 2:15)

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Col. 1:22• ²²In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: (Col. 1:22)

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2 Peter 3:14• ¹⁴Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. (2 Peter 3:14)

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Eph. 3:17• ¹⁷That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, (Eph. 3:17)

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Eph. 4:2,15‑16• ²With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
¹⁵But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
¹⁶From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. (Eph. 4:2,15‑16)

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Eph. 5:2• ²And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savor. (Eph. 5:2)

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Gal. 5:6,13,22• ⁶For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
¹³For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, (Gal. 5:6,13,22)

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Col. 2:2• ²That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; (Col. 2:2)

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1 Thess. 3:12• ¹²And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: (1 Thess. 3:12)

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1 John 4:16• ¹⁶And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)

• Take special notice here of the way in which the Holy Spirit keeps it continually before our eyes, that all is in Christ....This is one of the fundamental principles of the Spirit’s instruction in this place. The other is that the blessing has its origin in God Himself. (“Ephesians 1” by J.N. Darby)

• In verses 4-6 our own portion in Christ before God is developed. Verse 4 depends on the name of God; verse 5, on that of Father. (“Ephesians 1” by J.N. Darby)

• God could find His moral delight only in Himself and in that which morally resembles Him. (“Ephesians 1” by J.N. Darby)

• But this flows from the heart of God Himself, from a thought outside the circumstances in which He finds us in time. Before the world was, this was our place in His heart. He purposed to give us a place in Christ. He chose us in Him. (“Ephesians 1” by J.N. Darby)

• This shows that we belong in the counsels of God to a system set up by Him in Christ before the world existed, which is not of the world when it does exist, and exists after the fashion of this world has passed away. (“Ephesians 1” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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according as he has chosen us in him before the world’s foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;

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even as he chose us in him before [the] world’s foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;