Romans 8:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.”
Romans 8:28 promises that God works all things together for good for those who love him and are called according to his purpose. It does not say everything is good, but that God weaves even painful things toward a good end for his people.
Read the full meaning“And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 8:28 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 50:20As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
- Exodus 20:6but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Deuteronomy 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
- Deuteronomy 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
- Nehemiah 1:5Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
- Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
- Psalms 69:36The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.
- Jeremiah 24:5“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
- Jeremiah 51:29The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
- Zechariah 13:9This third I will bring through the fire;I will refine them like silverand test them like gold.They will call on My name,and I will answer them.I will say, ‘They are My people,’and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
- Mark 12:30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
- Acts 13:48When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
- Romans 1:6And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
- Romans 5:3Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
- Romans 8:30And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
- Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
- Romans 9:11Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
- Romans 9:23What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
- 1 Corinthians 1:9God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
- 1 Corinthians 2:9Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
- 2 Corinthians 4:15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may overflow in thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- Galatians 1:15But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
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