Ephesians 1:10

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

“I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; “for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even to the end.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

“ ‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offer it without defect.

“For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies.

He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.