the purpose of # 49_EPH_01_11 # In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: the purpose of # 45_ROM_09_11 # [For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;]