Luke 14:22

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in 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.

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”

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

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

I and the Father are one.”

For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

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 we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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.

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 the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forward and forever more.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

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 overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

But the goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away as the scapegoat into the wilderness.

David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

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

“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.”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

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.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

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,

For there are three who testify:

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.

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.

For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

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

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

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

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

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,

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, for there is loving kindness with Yahweh. Abundant redemption is with him.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

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