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Baruch
5:1-9
Luke
1:68-79
Philippians
1:3-11
Luke
3:1-6
Baruch
5:1-9
5:1 Take off the garment of
your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the
beauty of the glory from God.
5:2
Put on the robe of the righteousness that comes from God; put on
your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting;
5:3
for God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven.
5:4
For God will give you evermore the name, "Righteous Peace,
Godly Glory."
5:5
Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height; look toward the east,
and see your children gathered from west and east as the word of
the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
5:6
For they went out from you on foot, led away by their enemies; but
God will bring them back to you, carried in glory, as on a royal
throne.
5:7
For God has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting
hills be made low and the valleys filled up, to make level ground,
so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God.
5:8
The woods and every fragrant tree have shaded Israel at God's
command.
5:9
For God will lead Israel with joy, in the light of his glory, with
the mercy and righteousness that come from him.
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Luke
1:68-79
1:68 "Blessed be the
Lord God of Israel, for he has looked favorably on his people and
redeemed them.
1:69
He has raised up a mighty savior for us in the house of his
servant David,
1:70
as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
1:71
that we would be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all
who hate us.
1:72
Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors, and has
remembered his holy covenant,
1:73
the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham, to grant us
1:74
that we, being rescued from the hands of our enemies, might serve
him without fear,
1:75
in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
1:76
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for
you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
1:77
to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of
their sins.
1:78
By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break
upon us,
1:79
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of
death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."
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Philippians
1:3-11
1:3 I thank my God every
time I remember you,
1:4
constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of
you,
1:5
because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until
now.
1:6
I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among
you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.
1:7
It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you
hold me in your heart, for all of you share in God's grace with
me, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of
the gospel.
1:8
For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the
compassion of Christ Jesus.
1:9
And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more
with knowledge and full insight
1:10
to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of
Christ you may be pure and blameless,
1:11
having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through
Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
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Luke
3:1-6
3:1 In the fifteenth year
of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor
of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip
ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler
of Abilene,
3:2
during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God
came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
3:3
He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a
baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
3:4
as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,
"The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: 'Prepare the
way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
3:5
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be
made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
ways made smooth;
3:6
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"
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