Matthew 3:15
Greek Text— Matthew 3:15But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
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The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
If you love me, keep my commandments.
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.
She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
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.
“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest,
Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues to do my commandments and my ordinances, as it is today.’
David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”
He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.
Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’
On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”
Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done.
saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
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,
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.
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
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.
It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.
You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”
He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.”
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.
Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,