Luke 1:17

The Prediction Of John The Baptist's Birth

¹⁶ and he will turn many of Israel's descendants to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord." ¹⁸ Zechariah said to the angel, "How am I to know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in life."

Be Ready

Before God

Coming of the Lord

In the Spirit

Righteous One

To the Lord

Turn the Hearts of the Fathers

Turned to the Lord

Way of Righteousness

Will of God

Elias

Elijah

Luke

Messiah

Matthew 11:14

and, if you are ready to accept the idea, he is himself Elijah who was to come.

Luke 1:76

"And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the Lord to make his way ready,

John 3:28

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

Matthew 17:11-12

He answered, "Elijah does come and is to reform everything,

Mark 9:11-13

And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

Matthew 3:4

John wore clothing made of hair cloth, and he had a leather belt around his waist, and he lived on dried locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 3:7-12

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming?

Matthew 14:4

for John said to him, "It is not right for you to be living with her."

Matthew 21:29-32

And he answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go.

Luke 1:16

and he will turn many of Israel's descendants to the Lord their God.

Luke 3:7-14

So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

John 1:13

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

Acts 10:33

So I sent for you immediately, and you have very kindly come. Now we are all here in God's presence, to hear everything that the Lord has instructed you to say."

Romans 9:23

so as to show all the wealth of his glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he has prepared from the beginning to share his glory,

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice

Colossians 1:12

and you will thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light.

2 Timothy 2:21

So if a man will cleanse himself from these things, he will be put to great uses, consecrated and used by the master of the house himself, and ready for any good use.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

2 Peter 3:11-14

If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

1 John 2:28

Now, dear children, keep in union with him, so that if he appears, we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame when he comes.

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw thrones with beings seated on them, who were empowered to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and the message of God, who refused to worship the animal and its statue, and would not have its mark put on their foreheads or on their hands. They were restored to life and reigned with the Christ a thousand years.