Romans 8:29 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 8:29

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

BSB

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ASV

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

KJV

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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Commentary

1 voice

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS (253)

But as for this too which he said, "Conformed to the image of his Son," I wish to inquire to which form they are said to become conformed. For we read that the Son of God was placed sometimes in the form of God, sometimes in the form of a servant. To which, then, of these two forms the Apostle says that those who love God and for whom all things work together for good will be conformed — this seems to me no idle distinction.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For whom he did foreknow - The word used here προέγνω proegnō has been the subject of almost endless disputes in regard to its meaning in this place. The literal meaning of the word cannot be a matter of dispute. It denotes properly to “know beforehand;” to be acquainted with future events. But whether it means here simply to know that certain persons would become Christians; or to ordain, and constitute them to be Christians, and to be saved, has been a subject of almost endless discussion.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅτι	hoti	For	G3754 →
οὓς	hous	those whom	G3739 →
προέγνω,	proegnō	He foreknew,	G4267 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
προώρισεν	proōrisen	He predestined [to be]	G4309 →
συμμόρφους	summorphous	conformed to	G4832 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
εἰκόνος	eikonos	image	G1504 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
υἱοῦ	huiou	Son	G5207 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
εἶναι	einai	to be	G1511 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
πρωτότοκον	prōtotokon	firstborn	G4416 →
ἐν	en	among	G1722 →
πολλοῖς	pollois	many	G4183 →
ἀδελφοῖς·	adelphois	brothers;	G80 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
leads to
- Psalms 139:16
  Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
- Isaiah 49:1
  Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
- Galatians 1:15–16
  But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
- Psalms 71:5–6
  For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
- Isaiah 49:5
  And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, that Israel might be gathered to Him—for I am honored in the sight…
Through
Ephesians 1:11
In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
leads to
- Romans 8:28
  And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
Through
2 Timothy 1:9
He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
leads to
- Ephesians 2:8–9
  For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- Titus 3:4–5
  But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Romans

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Romans