John 3:30

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Summary

John 3:30

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Must increase

But

Hebrews 3:2

General references

Mark 1:7

Bible References

Must increase

May his fame be eternal as long as the sun may his name endure, and may they be blessed through him, and may all nations call him blessed.

Of the growth of his government and peace there will be no end. He will rule over his kingdom, sitting on the throne of David, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from this time onward and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will accomplish this.

For he grew up before him like a tender plant, and like a root out of a dry ground; he had no form and he had no majesty that we should look at him, and there is no attractiveness that we should desire him.

"As you were watching, a rock was quarried but not with human hands and it struck the iron and clay feet of the statue, breaking them to pieces.

He presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom from heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.

When the seventh angel blew his trumpet, there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The world's kingdom has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever."

But

Now David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died and was buried with his ancestors, and so he experienced decay.

Who is Apollos, anyhow? Or who is Paul? They're merely servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave to each of us his task.

Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses' face (because the glory was fading away from it),

He is also the head of the body, which is the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself might have first place in everything.

He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God's household,

General references

He kept proclaiming, "The one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to bend down and untie his sandal straps.