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10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord,
    and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
    and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
    nor shall there be any after me.(A)

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Who has performed and done this,
    calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord, am first
    and will be with the last.(A)

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Remember this and consider;[a]
    recall it to mind, you transgressors;(A)
    remember the former things of old,
for I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is no one like me,(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 46.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain

so that they may know, from the rising of the sun
    and from the west, that there is no one besides me;
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.(A)

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12 I am the one who declared and saved and proclaimed,
    not some strange god among you;
    you are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.(A)

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Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel,
    and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
I am the first, and I am the last;
    besides me there is no god.(A)
Who is like me? Let them proclaim it;
    let them declare and set it forth before me.
Who has announced from of old the things to come?[a]
    Let them tell us[b] what is yet to be.(B)
Do not fear or be afraid;
    have I not told you from of old and declared it?
    You are my witnesses!
Is there any god besides me?
    There is no other rock; I know not one.(C)

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  1. 44.7 Cn: Heb from my placing an eternal people and things to come
  2. 44.7 Tg: Heb them

21 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
    Has it not been told you from the beginning?
    Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?(A)
22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
    and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
    and spreads them like a tent to live in,(B)

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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”(A)

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The Servant, a Light to the Nations

42 Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
    my chosen, in whom my soul delights;
I have put my spirit upon him;
    he will bring forth justice to the nations.(A)

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20 so that all may see and know,
    all may consider and understand,
that the hand of the Lord has done this,
    the Holy One of Israel has created it.(A)

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but emptied himself,
    taking the form of a slave,
    assuming human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a human,(A)

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31 But these are written so that you may continue[a] to believe that Jesus is the Messiah,[b] the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.(A)

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  1. 20.31 Or may come
  2. 20.31 Or the Christ

He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light.

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who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.(A)

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27 You also are to testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.(A)

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But you, Israel, my servant,
    Jacob, whom I have chosen,
    the offspring of Abraham, my friend;(A)

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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 freed[a] us from our sins by his blood

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  1. 1.5 Other ancient authorities read washed

15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.(A)

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The Message to Laodicea

14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin[a] of God’s creation:(A)

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  1. 3.14 Or beginning

This you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on our[a] behalf,(A)

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  1. 1.7 Other ancient authorities read your

See, I made him a witness to the peoples,
    a leader and commander for the peoples.(A)

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