“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
“Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other.
I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God.
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen. Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.”
Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.
who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.
but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.
just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf
Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.
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