[ 3:16] And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her Seed, He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

He established me in the beginning, before time was, before He made the earth.

And you, Bethlehem, house of Ephratha, are few in number to be reckoned among the thousands of Judah; yet out of you shall one come forth to Me, to be a ruler of Israel; and His goings forth were from the beginning, even from eternity.

whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness through the passing over of the sins having previously occurred, in the forbearance of God,

[] Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to [the] revelation of [the] mystery kept secret since the world began,

[] but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the eternal God, for obedience to the faith--

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love,

and to enlighten all [as to] what is the administration of the mystery, which had been hidden from the ages in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;

according to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

the mystery which has been hidden from the ages and from generations, but now was revealed to His saints.

who having saved us, and having called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time [itself],

but has now been revealed through the appearance of our Savior Jesus Christ, having nullified death on the one hand, [and] having brought to life immortality through the gospel on the other,

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time [itself],

but has in due time manifested His word in a proclamation, [with] which I was entrusted according to the command of God our Savior;

And all those who dwell on the earth shall worship him, whose name is not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'

To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."

the mystery which has been hidden from the ages and from generations, but now was revealed to His saints.

and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and we declare to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us--

And you know that He appeared that He might take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

He who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this [reason] the Son of God appeared, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

By this the love of God is manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, in order that we might live through Him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

for an administration of the fullness of the times, [He might] bring together all things in Christ, those in heaven and those on the earth--In Him.

has in these last days spoken to us by [the] Son, whom He has appointed heir [of] all things, through whom also He made the worlds;

since it would have been necessary [for] Him to suffer often from the foundation of the world; but now, once at the consummation of the ages, He has been revealed for the removal of sin through the sacrifice of Himself.