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A Call to Holiness

1 Peter 1:20

In 9 translations

BSB
He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
KJV
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
WEB
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
ASV
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake,
LSV
foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and revealed in the last times because of you,
YLT
foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,
DBY
foreknown indeed before [the] foundation of [the] world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,
DRC
Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you,
GNV
Which was ordeined before the foundation of the world, but was declared in the last times for your sakes,

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἐσχάτου (“[this] last”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἐσχάτων (“[these] latest”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: ἐσχάτου. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἐσχάτου; Robinson–Pierpont read ἐσχάτων.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
προεγνωσμένου μὲν πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου, φανερωθέντος δὲ ἐπʼ ἐσχάτου τῶν χρόνων διʼ ὑμᾶς
RP2018
προεγνωσμένου μὲν πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου, φανερωθέντος δὲ ἐπ’ ἐσχάτων τῶν χρόνων δι’ ὑμᾶς,
TR-Boyd
προεγνωσμένου μὲν πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου, φανερωθέντος δὲ ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων τῶν χρόνων δι᾿ ὑμᾶς,
SCR1894
προεγνωσμενου μεν προ καταβολης κοσμου φανερωθεντος δε επ εσχατων των χρονων δι υμας

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Ephesians 1:4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
  • 2 Timothy 1:9–10He 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. And now He has revealed this grace through the…
  • Hebrews 9:26Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
  • Revelation 13:8And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.
  • Titus 1:2–3in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began. In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.
  • Hebrews 1:2But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.
  • Micah 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel — One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
  • Ephesians 3:9and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
  • Colossians 1:26the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints.
  • Ephesians 3:11according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Ephesians 1:10as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.
  • Romans 16:25–26Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past but now revealed and made known through the writings of…
  • Galatians 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
  • Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
  • 1 John 1:2And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.
  • 1 John 4:9–10This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as…

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