Luk 12:32, Joh 6:39-40, 10:27-30, 17:12, Rom 8:28-39, Eph 1:5-7 | ESV | STEP | Fear not , little flock , for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom .

arCited from Ps. 44:22

as 1 Cor. 4:9; 15:30, 31; 2 Cor. 4:10, 11; See Acts 20:24

at 1 Cor. 15:57; See John 16:33

au Gal. 2:20; Eph. 5:2; Rev. 1:5; 3:9

av ver. 11; Rom. 8:29, 30

axSee Rom. 8:15

ay ver. 9; [Luke 2:14; Heb. 2:4]; See Luke 12:32

az ver. 12, 14

ba[John 3:35; 10:17; Col. 1:13]; See Matt. 3:17

bb Col. 1:14

bc Rom. 3:24; 1 Cor. 1:30; [ch. 4:30]

bdSee Acts 20:28

beSee Acts 2:38

bf[ch. 3:8, 16; Col. 1:27]; See Rom. 2:4

Luke 12:32

32 ^a“Fear not, little ^bflock, for ^cit is your Father’s good pleasure to give you ^dthe kingdom.

John 6:39-40

39 And ^ethis is the will of him who sent me, ^fthat I should lose nothing of ^gall that he has given me, but ^hraise it up on the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who ⁱlooks on the Son and ^jbelieves in him ^kshould have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

John 10:27-30

27 ^lMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 ^mI give them eternal life, and ⁿthey will never perish, and ^ono one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, ^pwho has given them to me, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts What my Father has given to me} ^ris greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of ^sthe Father’s hand. 30 ^tI and the Father are one.”

John 17:12

12 ^uWhile I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have ^vguarded them, and ^wnot one of them has been lost except ^xthe son of destruction, ^ythat the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Romans 8:28-39

28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together ^zfor good, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts God works all things together for good, or God works in all things for the good} for ^abthose who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he ^acforeknew he also ^adpredestined ^aeto be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be ^afthe firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also ^agjustified, and those whom he justified he also ^ahglorified.

God’s Everlasting Love

31 What then shall we say to these things? ^aiIf God is for us, who can be ^{▼▼Or who is} against us? 32 ^akHe who did not spare his own Son but ^algave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? ^amIt is God who justifies. 34 ^anWho is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— ^aowho is at the right hand of God, ^apwho indeed is interceding for us. ^{▼▼Or Is it Christ Jesus who died . . . for us?} 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,

^ar“For your sake ^aswe are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than ^atconquerors through ^auhim who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ephesians 1:5-7

5 ^avhe predestined us ^{▼▼Or before him in love, having predestined us} for ^axadoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, ^ayaccording to the purpose of his will, 6 ^azto the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in ^bathe Beloved. 7 ^bbIn him we have ^bcredemption ^bdthrough his blood, ^bethe forgiveness of our trespasses, ^bfaccording to the riches of his grace,