John 11:52

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.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,

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.

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

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.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

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.

Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

“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.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

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.’

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.

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

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

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

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.

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

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.

“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!”

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

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.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

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.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”

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.”

“Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together. They come to you. Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried in arms.

“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

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

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

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,

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.