Isaiah 7:15

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.

The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

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

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter; for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

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.

at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

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

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

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

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;

He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

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.

I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.