Luke 3:5
Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.
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Luke 3:5
Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.
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Exodus 40:36
When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;
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1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
Psalms 113:7
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
Psalms 113:8
that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
Ecclesiastes 7:13
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
Ezekiel 21:26
the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.
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Psalms 26:12
My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.
Psalms 27:11
Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 15:19
The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
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Psalms 68:4
Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!
Jeremiah 18:15
For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,
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Psalms 85:9
Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
Isaiah 46:13
I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
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 56:1
Yahweh says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
Matthew 4:17
From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
Mark 1:15
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
Romans 1:17
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
Romans 10:6
But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down);
Romans 10:7
or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”
Romans 10:8
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:
Romans 10:9
that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:10
For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.
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Psalms 107:4
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
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Psalms 107:7
He led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.
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Proverbs 4:26
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
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Proverbs 4:27
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
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Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.
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Song of Solomon 2:8
The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.
Isaiah 42:11
Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
Isaiah 44:23
Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
Isaiah 49:12
Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.”
Isaiah 49:13
Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”
Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
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Isaiah 11:16
There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 42:15
I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
Isaiah 48:21
They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
Isaiah 63:13
Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble?
Jeremiah 31:9
They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.
Hosea 2:15
I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Acts 13:10
and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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Haggai 2:6
For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once more, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;
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Malachi 4:4
“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
Malachi 4:6
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
Matthew 3:5
Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
Matthew 11:7
As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
Matthew 11:10
For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
Matthew 11:13
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Matthew 11:14
If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
Matthew 17:11
Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things;
Matthew 21:25
The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
Luke 7:27
This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
Luke 8:18
Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”
Acts 3:21
whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
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Isaiah 58:12
Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
Isaiah 61:1
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
Matthew 11:5
the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
John 8:33
They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
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Isaiah 2:11
The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2:12
For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low—
Isaiah 2:13
for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,
Isaiah 2:14
for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,
Isaiah 2:15
for every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,
Isaiah 2:16
for all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.
Isaiah 2:17
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
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.
Zechariah 4:6
Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Luke 1:51
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
James 1:9
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
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Matthew 2:6
‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”
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,
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.”
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Luke 3:10
The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”
Luke 3:11
He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
Luke 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”
Luke 3:13
He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”
Luke 3:14
Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”
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Luke 4:8
Jesus answered him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
Philippians 1:27
Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
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Luke 9:52
and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.
Luke 10:1
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come.
Acts 1:15
In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
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Luke 23:30
Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’
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John 1:38
Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”
John 5:35
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
1 Corinthians 15:24
Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
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Acts 2:40
With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
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Luke 3:1
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke 3:16
John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire.
Luke 3:17
His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Luke 3:18
Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,
John 1:27
He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”
Acts 13:24
before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
Acts 13:25
As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
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Acts 27:29
Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
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Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
Romans 13:11
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
Romans 13:13
Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
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Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
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