Luke 1:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Before

Luke 1:16

John 1:13

John 3:28

In

Revelation 20:4

And the

Matthew 21:29

1 Corinthians 6:9

To make

1 John 2:28

Bible References

Before

and many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.

who are born not of superior blood, nor of a will of the flesh, nor of a will of man, but of God.

You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but am sent before him.

In

And if you will receive it, this is Elijah, who was to come.

And he answered and said, Elijah indeed comes, and shall restore all things.

And they asked him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

And they asked him, What then? are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And he answered, No.

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and the word of God, and who did not worship the beast nor his image and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their right hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years;

And the

But he answered and said, I will not; but afterwards he repented, and went.

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

To make

Immediately therefore I sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now therefore we are all present before God to hear all things which God has commanded you.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory,

giving thanks to the Father who has made us fit for a portion in the inheritance of the saints in light,

if therefore any one purifies himself from these [errors], he shall be a vessel for honor, sanctified, of good use to the master, prepared for every good work.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;

All these things therefore being dissolved, what persons ought we to be in holy conduct and piety,

And now, little children, continue in him, that when he shall appear we may have boldness, and not be put to shame by him at his coming.