The God
of Israel said,
the Rock
of Israel
spake to me,
He that
ruleth over men
must be just,
ruling in the fear of God.
And
he shall be as the light
of the morning,
when the sun riseth,
even a morning
without clouds;
as the tender grass
springing
out of the earth
by clear
shining after rain.
I the LORD
have called thee
in righteousness,
and will hold
thine hand,
and will keep thee,
and give thee
for a covenant
of the people,
for a light
of the Gentiles;
To open the blind eyes,
to bring
out the prisoners
from the prison,
and them that sit
in darkness
out of the prison house.
The Spirit
of the Lord GOD
is upon me;
because
the LORD
hath anointed me
to preach good tidings
unto the meek;
he hath sent me
to bind
up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty
to the captives,
and the opening
of the prison
to them
that are bound;
To proclaim
the acceptable year
of the LORD,
and the day
of vengeance
of our God;
to comfort all
that mourn;
To appoint
unto them that
mourn in Zion,
to give
unto them beauty
for ashes,
the oil
of joy
for mourning,
the garment
of praise
for the spirit
of heaviness;
that they
might be called trees
of righteousness,
the planting
of the LORD,
that he
might be glorified.
Seventy weeks
are determined
upon thy people
and upon thy holy city,
to finish
the transgression,
and
to make an end
of sins,
and
to make reconciliation
for iniquity,
and to bring in
everlasting righteousness,
and
to seal
up the vision
and prophecy,
and to anoint
the most Holy.
And
he shall confirm
the covenant
with many
for one week:
and in the midst
of the week
he shall cause
the sacrifice
and the oblation
to cease,
and for the overspreading
of abominations
he shall make
it desolate,
even until
the consummation,
and that
determined
shall be poured
upon the desolate.
But thou,
Bethlehem Ephratah,
though thou
be little
among the thousands of Judah,
yet out of thee shall
he come forth
unto me that is
to be ruler
in Israel;
whose goings
forth have been from
of old,
from everlasting.
In that day
there shall be
a fountain
opened
to the house
of David
and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem
for sin and
for uncleanness.
But who
may abide
the day
of his coming?
and
who shall stand
when
he appeareth?
for he
is like
a refiner's fire,
and like fullers' soap:
And he
shall sit
as a refiner
and purifier
of silver:
and
he shall purify
the sons
of Levi,
and purge them
as gold
and silver,
that they
may offer
unto the LORD
an offering
in righteousness.
And
she shall bring forth a son,
and
thou shalt call
his name JESUS:
for he shall save
his people
from their sins.
I indeed baptize you
with water
unto repentance.
but he
that cometh
after me
is mightier
than I,
whose shoes
I am not worthy
to bear:
he shall baptize you
with the Holy Ghost,
and with fire:
Whose fan
is in his hand,
and
he will throughly purge
his floor,
and gather
his wheat
into the garner;
but
he will burn up the chaff
with unquenchable fire.
And Jesus
went about all Galilee,
teaching
in their synagogues,
and preaching
the gospel
of the kingdom,
and healing all manner
of sickness
and all manner
of disease
among the people.
Think not
that I
am come
to destroy
the law,
or the prophets:
I am not come
to destroy,
but to fulfil.
But go
ye and learn
what
that meaneth,
I will have mercy,
and not sacrifice:
for I am not come
to call
the righteous,
but sinners
to repentance.
Think not
that I
am come
to send peace
on earth:
I came not
to send peace,
but a sword.
For I
am come
to set a man
at variance
against his father,
and the daughter
against her mother,
and the daughter
in law
against her mother
in law.
And a man's foes
shall be
they
of his own household.
But he
answered
and said,
I am not sent
but unto the lost sheep
of the house
of Israel.
For the Son
of man
is come to save
that which
was lost.
How think ye?
if a man
have an hundred sheep,
and one
of them be gone astray,
doth
he not leave
the ninety
and nine,
and goeth into the mountains,
and seeketh
that which
is gone astray?
And
if so
be that
he find it,
verily
I say unto you,
he rejoiceth more
of that sheep,
than
of the ninety
and nine which
went not astray.
Even so
it is not the will
of your Father
which is in heaven,
that one
of these little
ones should perish.
Even as the Son
of man
came not
to be ministered unto,
but to minister,
and
to give his life
a ransom
for many.
And
he said unto them,
Let us
go
into the next towns,
that I
may preach
there also:
for therefore came
I forth.
And it
came
to pass,
that,
as Jesus
sat at meat
in his house,
many publicans
and sinners
sat also
together
with Jesus
and his disciples:
for there were many,
and
they followed him.
And
when the scribes
and Pharisees
saw him
eat
with publicans
and sinners,
they said
unto his disciples,
How is it that
he eateth
and drinketh
with publicans
and sinners?
When Jesus
heard it,
he saith unto them,
They that
are whole
have
no need
of the physician,
but they
that are sick:
I came not
to call the righteous,
but sinners
to repentance.
And the disciples
of John
and of the Pharisees
used to fast:
and they come
and say unto him,
Why do
the disciples
of John
and of the Pharisees fast,
but thy disciples
fast not?
And Jesus
said unto them,
Can the children
of the bridechamber fast,
while the bridegroom
is with them?
as long as they
have the bridegroom
with them,
they cannot fast.
But the days
will come,
when the bridegroom
shall be taken away from them,
and
then shall
they fast
in those days.
No man
also seweth a piece
of new cloth
on an old garment:
else the new
piece that
filled it
up taketh away
from the old,
and the rent
is made worse.
And no man
putteth
new wine
into old bottles:
else the new wine
doth burst
the bottles,
and the wine
is spilled,
and the bottles
will be marred:
but new wine
must be put
into new bottles.
Through the tender mercy
of our God;
whereby the dayspring from
on high
hath visited us,
To give
light to them
that sit
in darkness
and in the shadow
of death,
to guide our feet
into the way
of peace.
For mine
eyes
have seen
thy salvation,
Which thou
hast prepared before the face
of all people;
A light
to lighten the Gentiles,
and the glory
of thy people Israel.
And Simeon
blessed them,
and said
unto Mary his mother,
Behold,
this child
is set
for the fall
and rising again
of many
in Israel;
and for a sign
which shall be spoken against;
(Yea,
a sword
shall pierce
through thy own soul also,)
that the thoughts
of many hearts
may be revealed.
And she
coming in
that instant
gave thanks likewise
unto the Lord,
and spake of him
to all
them
that looked for redemption
in Jerusalem.
The Spirit
of the Lord
is upon me,
because
he hath anointed me
to preach the gospel
to the poor;
he hath sent me
to heal
the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance
to the captives,
and recovering
of sight
to the blind,
to set at liberty
them
that are bruised,
To preach
the acceptable year
of the Lord.
And it
came
to pass afterward,
that he
went throughout every city
and village,
preaching
and shewing
the glad tidings
of the kingdom
of God:
and the twelve
were with him,
I am come
to send
fire
on the earth;
and what
will I,
if it
be already kindled?
But
I have
a baptism
to be baptized with;
and how am
I straitened till
it be accomplished!
Suppose
ye that
I am come
to give peace
on earth?
I tell you,
Nay;
but rather division:
For from henceforth there shall be
five
in one house divided,
three against two,
and two
against three.
The father
shall be divided
against the son,
and the son
against the father;
the mother
against the daughter,
and the daughter
against the mother;
the mother
in law
against her daughter
in law,
and the daughter
in law
against her mother
in law.
Ought not Christ
to have suffered these things,
and
to enter
into his glory?
And
said unto them,
Thus it
is written,
and thus it
behoved
Christ to suffer,
and to rise from the dead
the third day:
And that repentance
and remission
of sins
should be preached in his name
among all nations,
beginning
at Jerusalem.
And no man
hath ascended
up to heaven,
but
he that
came down
from heaven,
even the Son
of man
which is in heaven.
And
as Moses
lifted
up the serpent
in the wilderness,
even so
must
the Son
of man
be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth
in him should not perish,
but have
eternal life.
For God so
loved the world,
that he
gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish,
but have
everlasting life.
For God
sent not his Son
into the world
to condemn the world;
but
that the world
through him might be saved.
Jesus
saith unto them,
My meat
is to do
the will
of him that
sent me,
and to finish
his work.
I am
the living bread which
came down
from heaven:
if any man
eat of this bread,
he shall live
for ever:
and the bread that
I will give
is my flesh,
which I
will give
for the life
of the world.
Then spake Jesus
again unto them,
saying,
I am the light
of the world:
he that
followeth me
shall not walk
in darkness,
but shall have
the light
of life.
And Jesus said,
For judgment
I am come
into this world,
that they
which see
not might see;
and
that they
which see
might be made blind.
The thief
cometh not,
but for to steal,
and to kill,
and to destroy:
I am come
that they
might have life,
and that
they might have it
more abundantly.
Nor consider
that it
is expedient
for us,
that one man
should die
for the people,
and
that the whole nation
perish not.
And this
spake
he
not of himself:
but being high priest
that year,
he prophesied
that Jesus
should die
for that nation;
And not for that nation only,
but that also
he should gather together
in one
the children
of God
that were scattered abroad.
Now is
my soul troubled;
and
what shall
I say?
Father,
save me
from this hour:
but for this cause
came
I unto this hour.
I am come
a light
into the world,
that whosoever believeth
on me should not abide in
darkness.
And
if any man
hear my words,
and believe not,
I judge him not:
for I came not
to judge
the world,
but to save
the world.
Pilate
therefore said unto him,
Art
thou a king then?
Jesus answered,
Thou
sayest
that I
am a king.
To this end
was I born,
and
for this cause
came
I into the world,
that I
should bear
witness
unto the truth.
Every one
that is
of the truth heareth my voice.
Him hath God exalted
with his right hand to be
a Prince
and a Saviour,
for to give repentance
to Israel,
and forgiveness
of sins.
To him
give all
the prophets witness,
that through his name
whosoever believeth
in him shall receive remission
of sins.
That Christ
should suffer,
and
that he
should be
the first
that should rise
from the dead,
and should shew
light
unto the people,
and
to the Gentiles.
Who was delivered
for our offences,
and was raised again
for our justification.
For when
we were yet
without strength,
in due time
Christ
died
for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a
righteous man
will
one die:
yet peradventure for a
good man some
would even dare
to die.
For what
the law
could not do,
in that
it was weak
through the flesh,
God sending
his own Son
in the likeness
of sinful flesh,
and for sin,
condemned
sin
in the flesh:
That the righteousness
of the law
might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not
after the flesh,
but after the Spirit.
For Christ
is the end
of the law
for righteousness
to every one that believeth.
For to this end
Christ both died,
and rose,
and revived,
that he
might be Lord both
of the dead and living.
Now I
say that Jesus Christ
was a minister
of the circumcision
for the truth
of God,
to confirm
the promises
made unto the fathers:
And
that the Gentiles
might glorify God
for his mercy;
as it is written,
For this cause
I will confess
to thee
among the Gentiles,
and sing
unto thy name.
For the love
of Christ
constraineth us;
because
we thus judge,
that if one
died
for all,
then were all dead:
And
that he
died
for all,
that they which live
should not henceforth live
unto themselves,
but
unto him
which died for them,
and rose again.
Grace be
to you and peace
from God the Father,
and
from our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who gave himself
for our sins,
that he
might deliver us
from this present evil world,
according to the will
of God
and our Father:
But
when the fulness
of the time
was come,
God sent
forth his Son,
made of a woman,
made under the law,
To redeem them
that were under the law,
that we
might receive
the adoption
of sons.
He that
descended
is the same also
that ascended
up far above all heavens,
that he
might fill all things.)
This is a faithful saying,
and worthy
of all acceptation,
that Christ Jesus
came
into the world
to save sinners;
of whom
I am chief.
But we
see Jesus,
who was made
a little lower
than the angels
for the suffering
of death,
crowned with glory
and honour;
that he by the grace
of God
should taste death
for every man.
Forasmuch
then as the children
are partakers
of flesh
and blood,
he also
himself likewise
took part
of the same;
that through death
he might destroy him
that
had the power
of death,
that is,
the devil;
And deliver them
who
through fear
of death
were all
their lifetime subject to bondage.
For in
that he himself
hath suffered
being tempted,
he is able
to succour them
that are tempted.
For then
must
he often have suffered
since the foundation
of the world:
but now once in the end
of the world
hath
he appeared
to put
away
sin
by the sacrifice
of himself.
And
ye know
that he
was manifested
to take away
our sins;
and in him is
no sin.
He that
committeth
sin
is of the devil;
for the devil
sinneth from the beginning.
For this purpose
the Son
of God
was manifested,
that he
might destroy
the works
of the devil.
Herein is love,
not
that we
loved God,
but that
he loved us,
and sent
his Son
to be the propitiation
for our sins.