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Jeremiah
31:7-14
Psalm 147:12-20
Ephesians 1:3-14
John 1:10-18
Jeremiah
31:7-14
31:7 For thus says the
LORD: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the
chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, "Save,
O LORD, your people, the remnant of Israel."
31:8
See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and
gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the
blind and the lame, those with child and those in labor, together;
a great company, they shall return here.
31:9
With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead
them back, I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a straight
path in which they shall not stumble; for I have become a father
to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
31:10
Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the
coastlands far away; say, "He who scattered Israel will
gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd a flock."
31:11
For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from hands
too strong for him.
31:12
They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they
shall be radiant over the goodness of the LORD, over the grain,
the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the
herd; their life shall become like a watered garden, and they
shall never languish again.
31:13
Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men
and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I
will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.
31:14
I will give the priests their fill of fatness, and my people shall
be satisfied with my bounty, says the LORD.
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Psalm
147:12-20
147:12 Praise the LORD,
O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!
147:13
For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your
children within you.
147:14
He grants peace within your borders; he fills you with the finest
of wheat.
147:15
He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly.
147:16
He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.
147:17
He hurls down hail like crumbs-- who can stand before his cold?
147:18
He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow, and
the waters flow.
147:19
He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and ordinances to
Israel.
147:20
He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his
ordinances. Praise the LORD!
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Ephesians
1:3-14
1:3 Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with
every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
1:4
just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world
to be holy and blameless before him in love.
1:5
He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ,
according to the good pleasure of his will,
1:6
to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us
in the Beloved.
1:7
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
1:8
that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight
1:9
he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his
good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,
1:10
as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in
him, things in heaven and things on earth.
1:11
In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been
destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all
things according to his counsel and will,
1:12
so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might
live for the praise of his glory.
1:13
In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel
of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the
seal of the promised Holy Spirit;
1:14
this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God's
own people, to the praise of his glory.
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John
1:10-18
1:10 He was in the
world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world
did not know him.
1:11
He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept
him.
1:12
But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave
power to become children of God,
1:13
who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the
will of man, but of God.
1:14
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his
glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and
truth.
1:15
(John testified to him and cried out, "This was he of whom I
said, 'He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was
before me.'")
1:16
From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
1:17
The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ.
1:18
No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to
the Father's heart, who has made him known.
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