Luke 20:14

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

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.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

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

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

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.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

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

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

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.

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.”

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

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

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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

Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.

You are witnesses of these things.

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

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

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

‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

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

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

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 chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

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.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

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.

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

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 been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

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

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.