Matthew 3:15

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And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Jesus answered and said to him, What I do thou do not know now, but thou will understand after these things.

Then I said, Lo, I have come. In the volume of a book it is written of me.

It pleased LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

And they were both righteous before God, going in all the commandments and righteous things of the Lord blameless.

Jesus says to them, My food is that I do the will of him who sent me, and may finish his work.

And he who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do things pleasing to him.

For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done to you ye also should do.

If ye keep my commandments, ye will dwell in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and dwell in his love.

But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men.

For such a high priest is fitting for us, devout, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens.

For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.

He who claims to abide in him he also ought so to walk just as that man walked.

After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.