Bethlehem

She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.”

In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, — read the full passage →

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table. — read the full passage →

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,

But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, — read the full passage →

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times? — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in Yahweh’s house.

I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. — read the full passage →

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.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.” — read the full passage →

The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;

When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”

Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. — read the full passage →

For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!

Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn’t allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came. — read the full passage →

Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.

They gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.

Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, — read the full passage →

and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

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.

They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.

“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”

and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.

“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.”

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

For there are three who testify:

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. — read the full passage →

When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.