The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward.
but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me: I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’” When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
“Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
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