1 Peter 1:20
Good News Translation
He had been chosen by God before the creation of the world and was revealed in these last days for your sake.

New Revised Standard Version
He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake.

Contemporary English Version
Christ was chosen even before the world was created, but because of you, he did not come until these last days.

New American Bible
He was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you:

verily.

Genesis 3:15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

Proverbs 8:23 The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.

Micah 5:2 Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Romans 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

Romans 16:25,26 Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret from eternity; . . .

Ephesians 1:4 As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

Ephesians 3:9,11 And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God who created all things: . . .

Colossians 1:26 The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but now is manifested to his saints,

2 Timothy 1:9,10 Who hath delivered us and called us by his holy calling, not according to our own works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the world: . . .

Titus 1:2,3 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world: . . .

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.

but.

Acts 3:25,26 You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. . . .

Colossians 1:26 The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but now is manifested to his saints,

1 John 1:2 For the life was manifested: and we have seen and do bear witness and declare unto you the life eternal, which was with the Father and hath appeared to us.

1 John 3:5,8 And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him there is no sin. . . .

1 John 4:9,10 By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him. . . .

in.

Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:

Ephesians 1:10 In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.

Hebrews 1:2 In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

Hebrews 9:26 For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world. But now once, at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Context
A Call to Holiness
19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled 20Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you: 21Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the dead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.…
Cross References
Matthew 25:34
Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Acts 2:23
This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

Romans 8:29
For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren.

Ephesians 1:4
As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

1 Timothy 3:16
And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

Hebrews 1:2
In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

Hebrews 2:14
Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:

Hebrews 9:26
For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world. But now once, at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

1 Peter 1:2
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

Revelation 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.

1 Peter 1:19
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