Luke 18:19

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no 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.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

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,

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

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, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

“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.”

While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?

I and the Father are one.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

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?

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not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God.

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

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

He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

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

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

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

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

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

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

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to 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.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

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

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.

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.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

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.

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