Luke 1:42

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

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

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”

Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

“Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

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

Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.

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

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.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in 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.

“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

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

I and the Father are one.”

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

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

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.

Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

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

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

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

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

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.

Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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.

Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

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

Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?

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,

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

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

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.