John 8:53

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

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

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

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

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.

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

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.

Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible?”

When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

I and the Father are one.”

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

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.

Moses said to God, “Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”

“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.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!”

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 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.

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

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.

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

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

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

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

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

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.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?