“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
I chose you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart before you were born. I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the LORD’s declaration—“plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him. 5 He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.
“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.”