Isaiah 40:1-5 New International Version (NIV)

Comfort for God’s People

Matthew 3:3 New International Version (NIV)

³ This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:

Mark 1:2-3 New International Version (NIV)

² as it is written in Isaiah the prophet:

Luke 3:4-6 New International Version (NIV)

⁴ As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:

John 1:23 New International Version (NIV)

²³ John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”^[a]

John 10:9 New International Version (NIV)

⁹ I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.^[a] They will come in and go out, and find pasture.

John 14:4-6 New International Version (NIV)

⁴ You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

⁵ Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Acts 4:12 New International Version (NIV)

¹² Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

Romans 5:1-2 New International Version (NIV)

Peace and Hope

5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we^[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we^[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God.