Mark 1:3

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

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.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’

He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

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.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

Yahweh reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

They went out and preached that people should repent.

When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.

He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

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

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’ ”