Isaiah 53

New American Standard Bible

The Suffering Servant

53 ^(A)Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For He grew up before Him like a ^(B)tender ^[a]shoot,
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has ^(C)no stately form or majesty
That we would look at Him,
Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.
³He was ^(D)despised and abandoned by men,
A man of ^[b]great pain and ^(E)familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was ^(F)despised, and we had no ^(G)regard for Him.

⁴However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself ^(H)bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by ^(I)God, and humiliated.
⁵But He was ^[c]pierced for ^(J)our offenses,
He was crushed for ^(K)our wrongdoings;
The ^(L)punishment for our ^[d]well-being was laid upon Him,
And by ^(M)His wounds we are healed.
⁶All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all
To ^[e]fall on Him.

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted,
Yet He did not ^(N)open His mouth;
^(O)Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
⁸By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off from the land of the ^[f]living
^(P)For the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due?
⁹And His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a ^(Q)rich man in His death,
^(R)Because He had ^(S)done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

¹⁰But the Lord desired
To ^(T)crush Him, ^[g]^(U)causing Him grief;
If He renders ^[h]Himself as a guilt ^(V)offering,
He will see ^(W)His ^[i]offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the ^[j]good ^(X)pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
¹¹As a result of the ^[k]anguish of His soul,
He will ^[l]^(Y)see it and be satisfied;
By His ^(Z)knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will ^(AA)bear their wrongdoings.
¹²Therefore, I will allot Him a ^(AB)portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His ^[m]^(AC)life unto death,
And was ^(AD)counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself ^(AE)bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers.

Footnotes

Isaiah 53:2 Lit suckling
Isaiah 53:3 Lit pains
Isaiah 53:5 Or wounded
Isaiah 53:5 Or peace
Isaiah 53:6 Lit encounter Him
Isaiah 53:8 Or life
Isaiah 53:10 Lit He made Him sick
Isaiah 53:10 Lit His soul
Isaiah 53:10 Lit seed
Isaiah 53:10 Or will of
Isaiah 53:11 Or trouble
Isaiah 53:11 DSS see light; LXX also has light
Isaiah 53:12 Lit soul

Colossians 1-2

New American Standard Bible

Thankfulness for Spiritual Attainments

1 ^(A)Paul, ^(B)an apostle of Christ Jesus ^[a]^(C)by the will of God, and ^(D)Timothy ^[b]our brother,

²To the ^[c]^(E)saints and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ who are at Colossae: ^(F)Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

³^(G)We ^[d]give thanks to God, ^(H)the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, ⁴^(I)since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the ^(J)love which you have ^[e]for ^(K)all the ^[f]saints; ⁵because of the ^(L)hope ^(M)reserved for you in ^[g]heaven, of which you previously ^(N)heard in the word of truth, ^[h]the gospel ⁶which has come to you, just as ^[i]^(O)in all the world also it is bearing ^(P)fruit and ^[j]increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you ^(Q)heard it and ^[k]understood the grace of God in truth; ⁷just as you learned it from ^(R)Epaphras, our ^(S)beloved fellow bond-servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf, ⁸and he also informed us of your ^(T)love in the Spirit.

⁹For this reason we also, ^(U)since the day we heard about it, ^(V)have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the ^[l]^(W)knowledge of His will in all spiritual ^(X)wisdom and understanding, ¹⁰so that you will ^(Y)walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, ^[m]^(Z)to please Him in all respects, ^(AA)bearing fruit in every good work and ^[n]increasing in the ^[o]knowledge of God; ¹¹^(AB)strengthened with all power, according to ^[p]His glorious might, ^[q]for the attaining of all perseverance and ^[r]patience; ^(AC)joyously ¹²giving thanks to ^(AD)the Father, who has qualified us ^[s]to share in ^(AE)the inheritance of the ^[t]saints in ^(AF)light.

The Incomparable Christ

¹³^[u]For He rescued us from the ^[v]^(AG)domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of ^[w]^(AH)His beloved Son, ¹⁴^(AI)in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

¹⁵^[x]He is the ^(AJ)image of the ^(AK)invisible God, the ^(AL)firstborn of all creation: ¹⁶for ^[y]^(AM)by Him all things were created, ^(AN)both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether ^(AO)thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—^(AP)all things have been created through Him and for Him. ¹⁷He ^[z]^(AQ)is before all things, and in Him all things ^[aa]hold together. ¹⁸He is also the ^(AR)head of ^(AS)the body, the church; and He is ^(AT)the beginning, ^(AU)the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. ¹⁹For ^[ab]it was ^(AV)the Father’s good pleasure for all ^(AW)the ^[ac]fullness to dwell in Him, ²⁰and through Him to ^(AX)reconcile all things to Himself, ^(AY)whether things on earth or things in ^[ad]heaven, having made ^(AZ)peace through ^(BA)the blood of His cross.

²¹And although you were ^(BB)previously alienated and hostile in attitude, engaged in evil deeds, ²²yet He has now ^(BC)reconciled you in His ^(BD)body of flesh through death, in order to ^(BE)present you before Him ^(BF)holy and blameless and beyond reproach— ²³if indeed you continue in ^[ae]the faith firmly ^(BG)established and steadfast, and not shifting from the ^(BH)hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed ^(BI)in all creation under heaven, ^(BJ)and of which I, Paul, ^[af]was made a ^[ag]^(BK)minister.

²⁴^(BL)Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh ^(BM)I am supplementing what is lacking ^[ah]in Christ’s afflictions in behalf of ^(BN)His body, which is the church. ²⁵^(BO)I ^[ai]was made a minister of this church according to the ^(BP)commission from God granted to me for your benefit, so that I might ^[aj]fully carry out the preaching of the word of God, ²⁶that is, ^(BQ)the mystery which had been hidden from the past ages and generations, but now has been revealed to His ^[ak]saints, ²⁷to whom ^(BR)God willed to make known what ^(BS)the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is ^(BT)Christ in you, the ^(BU)hope of glory. ²⁸We proclaim Him, ^(BV)admonishing every person and teaching every person ^[al]with all ^(BW)wisdom, so that we may ^(BX)present every person ^[am]^(BY)complete in Christ. ²⁹For this purpose I also ^(BZ)labor, ^(CA)striving ^(CB)according to His ^[an]power which ^[ao]works mightily within me.

You Are Built Up in Christ

2 For I want you to know how great a ^(CC)struggle I have in your behalf and for those who are at ^(CD)Laodicea, and for all those who have not ^[ap]personally seen my face, ²that their ^(CE)hearts may be encouraged, having been ^(CF)knit together in love, and that they would attain to all ^(CG)the wealth ^[aq]that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a ^(CH)true knowledge of ^(CI)God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, ³in whom are hidden all ^(CJ)the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴^(CK)I say this so that no one will deceive you with ^(CL)persuasive arguments. ⁵For even though I am ^(CM)absent in body, I am nevertheless with you in spirit, rejoicing ^[ar]to see ^[as]your ^(CN)orderly manner and the ^(CO)stability of your faith in Christ.

⁶Therefore, as you have received ^(CP)Christ Jesus the Lord, so ^[at]^(CQ)walk in Him, ⁷having been firmly ^(CR)rooted and now being ^(CS)built up in Him and ^(CT)established ^[au]in ^[av]your faith, just as you ^(CU)were instructed, and overflowing ^[aw]with gratitude.

⁸^(CV)See to it that there is no one who takes you captive through ^(CW)philosophy and empty deception in accordance with human tradition, in accordance with the ^(CX)elementary principles of the world, ^[ax]rather than in accordance with Christ. ⁹For in Him all the ^(CY)fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, ¹⁰and in Him you have been ^(CZ)made ^[ay]complete, and ^(DA)He is the head ^[az]over every ^(DB)ruler and authority; ¹¹and in Him ^(DC)you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without hands, in the removal of ^(DD)the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, ¹²having been ^(DE)buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also ^(DF)raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who ^(DG)raised Him from the dead. ¹³And ^[ba]when you were ^(DH)dead ^[bb]in your wrongdoings and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He ^(DI)made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our wrongdoings, ¹⁴having canceled ^(DJ)the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and ^(DK)He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. ¹⁵When He had ^[bc]^(DL)disarmed the ^(DM)rulers and authorities, He ^(DN)made a public display of them, having ^(DO)triumphed over them through ^[bd]Him.

¹⁶Therefore, no one is to ^[be]^(DP)act as your judge in regard to ^(DQ)food and ^(DR)drink, or in respect to a ^(DS)festival or a ^(DT)new moon, or a ^(DU)Sabbath ^[bf]day— ¹⁷things which are only a ^(DV)shadow of what is to come; but the ^[bg]substance ^[bh]belongs to Christ. ¹⁸Take care that no one keeps ^[bi]^(DW)defrauding you of your prize by ^(DX)delighting in humility and the worship of the angels, ^[bj]taking his stand on visions he has seen, ^[bk]^(DY)inflated without cause by his ^(DZ)fleshly mind, ¹⁹and not holding firmly to ^(EA)the head, from whom ^(EB)the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ^[bl]ligaments, grows with a growth ^[bm]which is from God.

²⁰^(EC)If you have died with Christ ^[bn]to the ^(ED)elementary principles of the world, ^(EE)why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to ^(EF)decrees, such as, ²¹“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” ²²(which all refer ^(EG)to things destined to perish ^[bo]with use)—in accordance with the ^(EH)commandments and teachings of man? ²³These are matters which do have the ^[bp]appearance of wisdom in ^[bq]^(EI)self-made religion and humility and ^(EJ)severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against ^(EK)fleshly indulgence.

Footnotes

Colossians 1:1 Lit through
Colossians 1:1 Lit the
Colossians 1:2 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
Colossians 1:3 Or always give...praying for you
Colossians 1:4 Or toward
Colossians 1:4 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
Colossians 1:5 Lit the heavens
Colossians 1:5 Or of the gospel
Colossians 1:6 Or it is in all the world also, bearing
Colossians 1:6 Or spreading abroad
Colossians 1:6 Or came to fully know
Colossians 1:9 Or real knowledge
Colossians 1:10 Lit unto all pleasing
Colossians 1:10 Or growing by the knowledge
Colossians 1:10 Or real knowledge
Colossians 1:11 Lit the might of His glory
Colossians 1:11 Lit unto all
Colossians 1:11 Or patience with joy
Colossians 1:12 Lit unto the portion of
Colossians 1:12 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
Colossians 1:13 Lit Who rescued
Colossians 1:13 Lit authority
Colossians 1:13 Lit the Son of His love
Colossians 1:15 Lit Who is
Colossians 1:16 Or in
Colossians 1:17 Or has existed prior to
Colossians 1:17 Or endure
Colossians 1:19 Or all the fullness was pleased to dwell
Colossians 1:19 I.e., fullness of deity
Colossians 1:20 Lit the heavens
Colossians 1:23 Or in faith
Colossians 1:23 Lit became
Colossians 1:23 Or servant
Colossians 1:24 Lit of
Colossians 1:25 Lit became
Colossians 1:25 Lit make full the word of God
Colossians 1:26 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
Colossians 1:28 Lit in
Colossians 1:28 Or perfect
Colossians 1:29 Lit working
Colossians 1:29 Lit in power
Colossians 2:1 Lit in the flesh
Colossians 2:2 Lit of the full assurance
Colossians 2:5 Lit and seeing
Colossians 2:5 Or your good order
Colossians 2:6 Or lead your life
Colossians 2:7 Or by
Colossians 2:7 Or the faith
Colossians 2:7 One early ms in it with
Colossians 2:8 Lit and not
Colossians 2:10 Lit full
Colossians 2:10 Lit of
Colossians 2:13 Or although
Colossians 2:13 Or by reason of
Colossians 2:15 Or divested Himself of
Colossians 2:15 Or it; i.e., the cross
Colossians 2:16 Lit judge you
Colossians 2:16 Or days
Colossians 2:17 Lit body
Colossians 2:17 Lit of Christ
Colossians 2:18 Or deciding against you
Colossians 2:18 Or going into detail about
Colossians 2:18 Or conceited
Colossians 2:19 Lit bonds
Colossians 2:19 Lit of God
Colossians 2:20 Lit from
Colossians 2:22 Or by being consumed
Colossians 2:23 Lit report; Gr logos
Colossians 2:23 Or would-be religion

Psalm 89:14-37

New American Standard Bible

¹⁴^(A)Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
^(B)Mercy and ^[a]truth go before You.
¹⁵Blessed are the people who know the ^[b]^(C)joyful sound!
Lord, they walk in the ^(D)light of Your face.
¹⁶In ^(E)Your name they rejoice all the day,
And by Your righteousness they are exalted.
¹⁷For You are the glory of ^(F)their strength,
And by Your favor ^[c]our ^(G)horn is exalted.
¹⁸For our ^(H)shield belongs to the Lord,
^[d]And our king to the ^(I)Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹^[e]Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ^[f]ones,
And said, “I have ^[g]given help to one who is ^(J)mighty;
I have exalted one ^(K)chosen from the people.
²⁰I have ^(L)found My servant David;
With My holy ^(M)oil I have anointed him,
²¹With whom ^(N)My hand will be established;
My arm also will ^(O)strengthen him.
²²The enemy will not ^[h]deceive him,
Nor will the ^[i]^(P)son of wickedness afflict him.
²³But I will ^(Q)crush his adversaries before him,
And strike those who hate him.
²⁴My ^(R)faithfulness and My favor will be with him,
And in My name his ^(S)horn will be exalted.
²⁵I will also place his hand ^(T)on the sea,
And his right hand on the rivers.
²⁶He will call to Me, ‘You are ^(U)my Father,
My God, and the ^(V)rock of my salvation.’
²⁷I will also make him My ^(W)firstborn,
The ^(X)highest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸I will maintain My ^(Y)favor for him forever,
And My ^(Z)covenant shall be confirmed to him.
²⁹So I will establish his ^[j]^(AA)descendants forever,
And his ^(AB)throne ^(AC)as the days of heaven.

³⁰“If his sons ^(AD)abandon My Law
And do not walk in My judgments,
³¹If they ^[k]violate My statutes
And do not keep My commandments,
³²Then I will punish their wrongdoing with the ^(AE)rod,
And their guilt with ^[l]afflictions.
³³But I will not ^[m]withhold ^(AF)My favor from him,
Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.
³⁴I will not ^[n]violate My ^(AG)covenant,
Nor will I ^(AH)alter ^[o]the utterance of My lips.
³⁵^[p]Once I have ^(AI)sworn by My holiness;
I will not lie to David.
³⁶His ^[q]^(AJ)descendants shall endure forever,
And his ^(AK)throne ^(AL)as the sun before Me.
³⁷It shall be established forever ^(AM)like the moon,
And a ^(AN)witness in the sky is faithful.” Selah

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Footnotes

Psalm 89:14 Or faithfulness
Psalm 89:15 Or blast of the trumpet, shout of joy
Psalm 89:17 Another reading is You exalt our horn
Psalm 89:18 Or Even to the Holy One of Israel our King
Psalm 89:19 Or At that time
Psalm 89:19 Some mss one
Psalm 89:19 Lit placed help upon
Psalm 89:22 Or exact usury from him
Psalm 89:22 Or wicked man
Psalm 89:29 Lit seed
Psalm 89:31 Lit profane
Psalm 89:32 Or plagues
Psalm 89:33 Lit break
Psalm 89:34 Lit profane
Psalm 89:34 Lit that which goes forth
Psalm 89:35 Or One thing
Psalm 89:36 Lit seed

Proverbs 13:17-19

New American Standard Bible

¹⁷A wicked messenger falls into adversity,
But ^(A)a faithful messenger brings healing.
¹⁸Poverty and shame will come to one who ^(B)neglects ^[a]discipline,
But one who complies with rebuke will be honored.
¹⁹Desire realized is sweet to the soul,
But it is an abomination to fools to turn away from evil.