1:4 Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
1:5 As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,
1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
至於我相信我的名字在生命冊上,因為:
1。神在創立之先就揀選了他的選民,要讓他們借基督得兒子的名份,得榮耀。(弗1:4-5,林前2:7)
2。這些選民的名字是神一早就計劃定下,並在歷史中將他們一個一個呼召出來。(約6:39,羅8:30)
3。Everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.(啟13:8)生命冊在創立世界之先已寫好了。