John 1:16

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

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,

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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.

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.

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.”

With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

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

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

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

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

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

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

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,

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

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

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’ ”

John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

“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.”

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

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.

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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?

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

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.

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,

Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its width was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.

You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them.

The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”

Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.

It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”

The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

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 in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

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

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

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.

whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.