Lamentations 2:12

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.

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

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

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.

For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.”

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

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.

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

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.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”

“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

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.

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.”

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.

David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

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

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

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.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,

Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, Yahweh, and see; for I have become despised.”

Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

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

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

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.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

“The Lord Yahweh says to Tyre: ‘Won’t the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within you?

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.