Luke 2:31
which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;
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Luke 2:31
which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;
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Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 46:3
He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
Deuteronomy 28:3
You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
Psalms 21:6
For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
Psalms 22:27
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
Psalms 67:7
God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Psalms 72:17
His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
Psalms 72:18
Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
Psalms 72:19
Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
Galatians 3:9
So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
Galatians 3:14
that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
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Joshua 19:24
The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
Luke 2:35
Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
Luke 2:36
There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
Luke 2:37
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
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2 Samuel 5:14
These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
2 Samuel 12:1
Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city: the one rich, and the other poor.
2 Samuel 12:2
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
2 Samuel 12:3
but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.
2 Samuel 12:4
A traveler came to the rich man, and he didn’t want to take of his own flock and of his own herd to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
2 Samuel 12:5
David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!
2 Samuel 12:6
He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity!”
2 Samuel 12:7
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
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1 Kings 11:36
I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
1 Kings 15:4
Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;
2 Chronicles 21:7
However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.
Psalms 132:17
I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
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Psalms 66:1
Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
Psalms 66:2
Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise!
Psalms 66:3
Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
Psalms 66:4
All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name.” Selah.
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Psalms 67:1
May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.
Psalms 117:2
For his loving kindness is great toward us. Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise Yah!
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Psalms 69:16
Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
Psalms 106:4
Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
Psalms 106:5
that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Psalms 119:41
Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, according to your word.
Psalms 119:58
I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
Psalms 119:76
Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
Psalms 119:77
Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
Psalms 119:132
Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
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Isaiah 1:27
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
Isaiah 32:15
until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
Isaiah 32:16
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
Isaiah 51:5
My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.
Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
Ezekiel 17:23
I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.
John 3:15
that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Acts 3:18
But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Acts 3:19
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
Acts 17:30
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Acts 26:23
how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
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Isaiah 2:2
It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
Isaiah 11:10
It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
Isaiah 42:1
“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
Isaiah 60:3
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Micah 4:2
Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
Haggai 2:7
and I will shake all nations. The treasure of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.
Matthew 28:18
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Mark 1:15
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
Luke 1:72
to show mercy toward our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
Luke 24:47
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Acts 3:26
God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
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Psalms 37:39
But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
Psalms 68:19
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.
Psalms 68:20
God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
Psalms 121:2
My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
Isaiah 45:17
Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
Isaiah 45:21
Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.
Isaiah 45:24
They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
Isaiah 45:25
All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!
Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
Jonah 2:9
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Matthew 1:22
Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
Matthew 1:23
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel,” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
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Jeremiah 8:7
Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.
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Matthew 2:11
They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Luke 2:16
They came with haste and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough.
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Matthew 3:3
For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”
Luke 3:4
As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.
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Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Luke 9:41
Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
Acts 2:40
With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
Philippians 2:15
that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
Philippians 2:16
holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
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Luke 1:47
My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
Luke 1:48
for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
Luke 1:49
For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.
Luke 1:50
His mercy is for generations and generations on those who fear him.
Luke 1:51
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Luke 1:52
He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.
Luke 1:53
He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
Luke 1:56
Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.
Luke 1:64
His mouth was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God.
Luke 1:65
Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.
Luke 1:66
All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.
2 Corinthians 9:15
Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
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Psalms 40:10
I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
Isaiah 1:26
I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’
Isaiah 32:17
The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah 40:5
Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
Isaiah 49:22
The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples. They shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
Isaiah 60:2
For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
Luke 1:17
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
Luke 1:79
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Luke 2:14
“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Revelation 3:7
“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
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Isaiah 25:7
He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
Luke 2:25
Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
Ephesians 1:9
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
Colossians 1:26
the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
Titus 1:3
but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,
1 Peter 1:20
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
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Luke 24:50
He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them.
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Luke 24:51
While he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.
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John 21:15
So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
John 21:16
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
John 21:17
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
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Acts 1:6
Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
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Acts 1:7
He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
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Acts 2:23
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
Revelation 14:13
I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”
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Acts 15:7
When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.
Acts 15:8
God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
Acts 15:14
Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
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Acts 26:1
Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
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Exodus 15:1
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
Psalms 27:1
Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 98:1
Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 62:1
For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.
Luke 1:77
to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,
Luke 1:78
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
Romans 15:8
Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
Philippians 3:1
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
Revelation 5:9
They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
Revelation 7:10
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
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Psalms 43:5
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
Psalms 62:1
My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
Lamentations 3:26
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
Ephesians 3:8
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Colossians 1:23
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
Colossians 1:27
to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1 Timothy 1:15
The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
2 Timothy 1:10
but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
Titus 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 1:21
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
1 John 1:2
(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
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Hebrews 2:11
For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
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Song of Solomon 8:1
Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.
Hebrews 2:12
saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the congregation I will sing your praise.”
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Hebrews 9:9
This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,
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Hebrews 10:2
Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
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Psalms 33:22
Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you.
Matthew 13:16
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
Matthew 13:17
For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
Luke 10:23
Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
Luke 10:24
for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”
1 Peter 1:10
Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
1 Peter 1:11
searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them pointed to when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow them.
1 Peter 1:12
To them it was revealed that they served not themselves, but you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
1 Peter 1:13
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
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Revelation 12:2
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
Revelation 12:6
The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
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Matthew 25:41
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
Mark 10:40
but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”
Revelation 9:15
The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
Revelation 16:12
The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.
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