5. God was kind and decided that Christ would choose us to be God's own adopted children.
6. God was very kind to us because of the Son he dearly loves, and so we should praise God.
9. and by what Christ has done, God has shown us his own mysterious ways.
10. Then when the time is right, God will do all that he has planned, and Christ will bring together everything in heaven and on earth.
11. God always does what he plans, and that's why he appointed Christ to choose us.
12. He did this so that we Jews would bring honour to him and be the first ones to have hope because of him.