Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
“Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the Lord have created it.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.
In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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