Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. |
knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God. |
knowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of you; |
For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you, |
[O] brethren beloved, we recognize and know that He has selected (chosen) you; |
since we know, brethren, that you who have always been loved by God and at the present time are the objects of His affection, are the subjects of the divine selection [in which God in sovereign grace selected you out for salvation]. |
We know, brothers, that God not only loves you but has selected you for a special purpose. |
For we know, brothers so beloved by God, that He has chosen you, |
- No cross references or parallel passage have been cited for this verse.
- The Do Nothing Gospel; - Neil Girrard - ( in Adobe/pdf format ) Some are teaching that any work whatsoever is “self-effort” so as to be saved or a return to law as a way to earn one’s salvation. But is this so?