Luke 4:18
The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.
Matthew 11:5
The blind receive their sight. The lame walk! The lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear. The dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah has anointed me to announce good news to the lowly and meek. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.
Acts 10:38
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil. God was with him.
Psalm 146:7-8
He executes justice for the oppressed. He gives food to the hungry. Jehovah sets the prisoners free.
Isaiah 42:7
You will open the eyes of the blind and set free those who sit in dark prisons.
Luke 6:20
He looked at his disciples and said: Blessed are you who are poor for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 7:22
He answered John's disciples: Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard. The blind receive their sight! The lame walk and lepers are cleansed. The deaf hear! The dead are raised up and the poor have good news preached to them.
John 3:34
For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God. God does not give the spirit by measure.
Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. They may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
1 Peter 2:9
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity (hostility) (hatred) between you and the woman, and between your offspring (seed) and hers. He will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) you in the head, and you will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) him in the heel. (Romans 16:20)
2 Chronicles 34:27
You had a change of heart and humbled yourself in front of God when you heard my words against this place and those who live here. You humbled yourself, tore your clothes in distress, and cried in front of me. So I will listen to you, proclaims Jehovah.
Psalm 2:2
The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against Jehovah and against his Anointed One.
Psalm 2:6
I have installed (anointed) (established) my king on Zion, my holy mountain.
Psalm 34:18
Jehovah is near to those whose hearts and minds are humble and contrite. He saves the broken hearted and crushed in spirit.
Psalm 45:7
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, Your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy above your fellows.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. O God, you do not despise a broken and sorrowful (contrite) heart.
Psalm 102:20
He heard the groaning of the prisoner, to set free those who were doomed to death.
Psalm 107:10-16
Those who lived in the dark, in death's shadow were prisoners in misery. They were held in iron chains
Psalm 147:3
He is the healer of the brokenhearted. He is the one who bandages their wounds.
Isaiah 11:2-5
The Spirit of Jehovah will rest on him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and respect for Jehovah will be his.
Isaiah 29:18-19
The deaf will be able to hear the words of the book read to them. The blind will be freed from gloom and darkness.
Isaiah 32:3
Their eyes and ears will be open to the needs of the people.
Isaiah 35:5
Then the blind will be able to see, and the deaf will hear.
Isaiah 42:1-4
Here is my servant, whom I have strengthened. Here is the one I have chosen, with whom I am pleased. I have filled him with my Spirit, and he will bring justice to every nation.
Isaiah 42:16-18
I will lead my blind people by roads they have never traveled. I will turn their darkness into light and make rough country smooth before them. I will keep my promises without fail.
Isaiah 45:13
I have stirred Cyrus to action to fulfill my purpose and put things right. I will straighten out every road that he travels. He will rebuild my city, Jerusalem, and set my captive people free. No one has hired him or bribed him to do this. Jehovah of Hosts has spoken.
Isaiah 49:9
Say to those who are bound: Go forth, to those in the darkness and show yourselves. They will feed along the roads and their pasture is on all bare heights.
Isaiah 49:24-25
Can the prey be taken from the strong man? Can the captives be rescued from the tyrant?
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Jehovah will teach me what to say, so I will know how to encourage tired people. Morning after morning he will wake me to listen like a student.
Isaiah 52:2-3
Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 57:15
The High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy, says: 'I dwell in the high and holy and also with him who has a contrite and humble spirit. I revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite ones.'
Isaiah 59:21-2
This is my promise to them,says Jehovah. My Spirit is on you and my words that I put in your mouth will not leave you. They will be with your children and your grandchildren permanently, says Jehovah
Isaiah 66:2
I have made all these things. That is why all these things have come into being, declares Jehovah. I will pay attention to those who are humble and sorry for their sins and who tremble at my word.
Ezekiel 9:4
Go through the whole city of Jerusalem and put a mark (signature) on the forehead of everyone who is distressed and troubled because of all the disgusting things being done in the city.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Zephaniah 3:12
I will leave a faithful few, a humble and lowly people with you. They will seek refuge in the name of Jehovah.
Zechariah 9:11-12
I set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. This is because of the blood of your covenant!
Zechariah 11:11
It was broken in that day. In this way, the poor of the flock listened to me and knew that it was the word of Jehovah.
Malachi 4:2
The sun of righteousness with it's healing will shine on you who respect my name and obey me. You will be free and paw the ground like fat calves.
Matthew 4:16
the people sitting in darkness saw a great light. Light rose upon those sitting in a region of deathly shadow.
Matthew 5:3
Blessed (Greek: makarios: happy, blessed) are those conscious of their spiritual need, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Matthew 9:27-30
Jesus left that place and walked along the road. Two blind men followed him. They shouted: Have mercy on us, Son of David!
Matthew 12:20
He will break a bruised reed. He will quench smoking flax. This he will do until he sends forth judgment to victory.
John 1:41
He found his brother Simon first. He said to him: We have found the Messiah (Christ).
John 9:39-41
Jesus said: I came into the world for this judgment that those not seeing may see and those seeing may become blind.
John 12:46
I have come as a light to the world. Everyone who believes in me will not remain in darkness.
Acts 4:27
Truly both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the people of the nations and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you have anointed.
Ephesians 5:8-14
You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk (live) (be occupied) as children of light
Colossians 1:13
He rescued us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love (the Son he dearly loves).
1 Thessalonians 5:5-6
You are all the children (sons) of light, and the children of the day. We are not of the night, not of darkness.
James 2:5
Listen, my dearly beloved brothers! Did God choose poor people in the world to be rich in faith and to receive the kingdom he promised to those who love him?
1 John 2:8-10
Then again, I do write a new commandment to you. This is true in him and in you. The darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.