Isaiah 9:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

For unto

Luke 1:35

Luke 2:11

Unto us a son

The government

Revelation 19:16

His name

Matthew 1:23

1 Timothy 3:16

Counseller

The everlasting father

Hebrews 2:13

The prince of peace

Bible References

For unto

The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for this reason your holy offspring will be called 'the Son of God.'

For a Saviour who is the Anointed Lord is born to you to-day, in the town of David.

Unto us a son

And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory--the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

He who did not withhold even His own Son, but gave Him up for all of us, will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

The government

"All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the Father, nor does any one fully know the Father except the Son and all to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

Jesus however came near and said to them, "All power in Heaven and over the earth has been given to me.

For He must continue King until He shall have put all His enemies under His feet.

high above all other government and authority and power and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either in this Age or in the Age to come.

And on His outer garment and on His thigh He has a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

His name

"Mark! The maiden will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call His name Immanuel" --a word which signifies 'God with us'.

And, beyond controversy, great is the mystery of our religion-- that Christ appeared in human form, and His claims justified by the Spirit, was seen by angels and proclaimed among Gentile nations, was believed on in the world, and received up again into glory.

Counseller

for I will give you utterance and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to withstand or reply to.

For He it is from whose fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;

In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.

The everlasting father

and again, "As for Me, I will be one whose trust reposes in God;" and again, "Here am I, and here are the children God has given Me."

The prince of peace

"Glory be to God in the highest Heavens, And on earth peace among men who please Him!"

Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.

The Message which He sent to the descendants of Israel, when He announced the Good News of peace through Jesus Christ--He is Lord of all--that Message you cannot but know;

Standing then acquitted as the result of faith, let us enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account, and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.

For He is our peace--He who has made Jews and Gentiles one, and in His own human nature has broken down the hostile dividing wall,

And God purposed through Him to reconcile the universe to Himself, making peace through His blood, which was shed upon the Cross--to reconcile to Himself through Him, I say, things on earth and things in Heaven.

to whom also Abraham presented a tenth part of all--being first, as his name signifies, King of righteousness, and secondly King of Salem, that is, King of peace:

Now may God who gives peace, and brought Jesus, our Lord, up again from among the dead--even Him who, by virtue of the blood of the eternal Covenant, is the great Shepherd of the sheep--