Behold, the virgin shall have gestation and bring forth a son, and they will call his name Emmanuel, which is interpreted, God is with us.

And thou, Bethlehem, the land of Judea, art by no means the least among the princes of Judah; for out of thee shall come a leader, who will shepherd my people, Israel.

and was there until the death of Herod: in order that the Word, having been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, might be fulfilled, saying; Out of Egypt have I called my son.

A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and weeping and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children; and was not willing to be comforted, because they are not.

A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and weeping and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children; and was not willing to be comforted, because they are not.

And having come, he went down into the city called Nazareth, in order that the words spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that He shall be called a Nazarene.

Thou land Zabulon and land Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,

Blessed are they that mourn: because they shall be comforted.

You have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not murder; and whosoever may murder shall be in danger of the judgment;

You have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery.

And it was said, Whosoever may send away his wife, let him give her a divorcement.

in order that the word spoken by Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, He took our infirmities, and carried our sicknesses.

But having gone, learned what this is, I wish mercy and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

For I came to divide a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:

Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul took delight: I will place my Spirit upon Him, and He will proclaim judgment to the Gentiles.

For as Jonah was in the stomach of the whale three days and three nights, so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. The men of Nineveh will rise in judgment with this generation, and condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

in order that the word spoken by Isaiah, the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables: I will make known the things which have been hidden from the foundation.

Ye hypocrites, beautifully did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, saying, This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. read more. But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh, meek, and seated upon a donkey, even a colt, the progeny of the work-beast.

Jesus says, Have you not read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has come to be the head of the corner: this was with the Lord, and is marvelous in our eyes?

Then the word having been spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, was fulfilled, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him that was valued, whom they of the sons of Israel did value;

the voice of one roaring in the wilderness; Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.

And He said to them, Have ye not read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, and those with him?

But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses at the Bush, how God spoke to him saying; I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

And Jesus responded to him, The first commandment of all; Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, is one Lord:

Inasmuch as many took it in hand to present a history concerning these things which have been fulfilled among us, as those being eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word have delivered unto us; read more. it seemed good to me also, having followed carefully all things from the beginning, to write unto thee consecutively, O most noble Theophilus, in order that thou mayest know the certainty of the words concerning which thou hast been instructed.

and they will bear thee upon their hands, lest at any time thou mayest dash thy foot against a stone.

And the multitudes being assembled, He began to say, This is a wicked generation: it seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Then they said to one another, Let us not tear it, but let us gamble for it, whose it shall be. In order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, saying, They divided my garments among themselves, and upon my vesture they cast the lot. Then indeed the soldiers did these things.

And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

But the Most High dwelleth not in houses built with hands, as the prophet says,

and the place of the scripture which he was reading was this, He was led like a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before the one shearing him is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

For in him we live and move and have our being, as indeed certain ones of your own poets have said, For we are truly his offspring.

Go to this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and may not understand; and seeing you shall see, and may not perceive:

it could not be so: but let God be true, and every man a liar; as indeed it has been written, In order that you may be justified in your words, and shall prevail, in your judgment.

as has been written, There is no one good, not one: there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks out God; read more. all have gone away, they have all together become unprofitable; there is no one who is doing good, there is not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Whose feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and they have not known the way of peace. The fear of God is not before their eyes.

Then does this blessedness come on the circumcision, or on the uncircumcision? for we say That faith was imputed to Abraham for righteousness.

But concerning those things about which you wrote to me: That it is good for a man not to receive a wife:

But concerning things offered to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but divine love builds up.

For in the law of Moses it has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that plows. Is there a care to God for oxen,

Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them were; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and arose up to play.

But I praise you because you remember me in all things, and hold fast the commandments, as I delivered them unto you.

And proclaiming this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

For so many as are of works of law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who does not abide in all things which have been written in the book of the law, to do the same.

And again I witness to every man who is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law.

for neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And so many as shall walk by this rule, peace and mercy be unto them, and unto the Israel of God.

which he has wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead, and seating him on his right hand in the heavenlies,

I thank my God for every mention of you,

But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, and apostle and the minister of my necessity;

Moreover you did beautifully, communicating with my tribulation. And you indeed know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the word of giving and receiving, except you alone; read more. because also in Thessalonica both once and twice you sent to my need. Not that I seek a gift; but I seek fruit abounding to your credit. But I have all things, and I abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus those things from you, an odor of a sweet savor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

A certain one of them, their own prophet, said, The Cretans are all liars, evil beasts, slow stomachs.

hearing about your divine love, and the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and all the saints; in order that the fellowship of your faith may be efficient in the perfect knowledge of every good thing which is in you toward Christ. read more. For I had much joy and consolation over your divine love, because the affections of the saints have been refreshed by you, O brother.

For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, the one having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him, to whom Abraham divided the tenth from all first, being interpreted, King of righteousness, and then King of Salem, which is, King of peace; read more. without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but being made like unto the Son of God, he abides a priest continually. You see how great this man was, to whom the patriarch Abraham even gave the tenth part of the chief spoils. And those indeed of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood have a commandment to tithe the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though having come out from the loins of Abraham: but he who did not derive his lineage from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him having the promises. For without contradiction the less is blessed by the better. And here indeed men dying, receive tithes; however there, he is witnessed to that he lives. And, so to speak a word, Levi, the one receiving tithes, has also been tithed through Abraham. For he was still in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.

and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

Therefore all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass: the grass is withered, and the flower fell off;

And I saw upon the right hand of the one sitting upon the throne a book having been written within and without, having been sealed with seven seals.

And after this I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow upon the earth, nor the sea, nor upon any tree.

saying to the sixth angel the one having the trumpet, Loose the four angels which have been bound at the great river Euphrates.

And another second angel followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nation to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone most precious, as a crystalline, jasper stone;