Joh 17:24, Eph 1:6-14, 1Jo 3:1, 4:19 | ESV | STEP | Father , I desire that they also , whom you have given me , may be with me where I am , to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world .

24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be ^awith me ^bwhere I am, ^cto see my glory that you have given me because you loved me ^dbefore the foundation of the world.

Ephesians 1:6-14

6 ^eto the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in ^fthe Beloved. 7 ^gIn him we have ^hredemption ⁱthrough his blood, ^jthe forgiveness of our trespasses, ^kaccording to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 ^lmaking known ^{▼▼Or he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight, making known . . .} to us the mystery of his will, ⁿaccording to his purpose, which he ^oset forth in Christ 10 as a plan for ^pthe fullness of time, ^qto unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

11 In him we have obtained ^ran inheritance, ^shaving been predestined ^taccording to the purpose of him who works all things according to ^uthe counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be ^vto the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard ^wthe word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, ^xwere sealed with the ^ypromised Holy Spirit, 14 who is ^zthe guarantee ^{▼▼Or down payment} of our ^abinheritance until ^acwe acquire ^adpossession of it, ^{▼▼Or until God redeems his possession} ^afto the praise of his glory.

1 John 3:1

1 See ^agwhat kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called ^ahchildren of God; and so we are. The reason why ^aithe world does not know us is that ^ajit did not know him.

1 John 4:19

19 ^akWe love because he first loved us.