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You love justice and hate evil.
    Therefore God, your God, has anointed you,
    pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.

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You love justice and hate evil.
    Therefore, O God, your God has anointed you,
    pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.”[a]

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  1. 1:8-9 Ps 45:6-7.

You have endowed him with eternal blessings
    and given him the joy of your presence.

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He loves whatever is just and good;
    the unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth.

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Good News for the Oppressed

61 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me,
    for the Lord has anointed me
    to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted
    and to proclaim that captives will be released
    and prisoners will be freed.[a]
He has sent me to tell those who mourn
    that the time of the Lord’s favor has come,[b]
    and with it, the day of God’s anger against their enemies.
To all who mourn in Israel,[c]
    he will give a crown of beauty for ashes,
a joyous blessing instead of mourning,
    festive praise instead of despair.
In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks
    that the Lord has planted for his own glory.

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  1. 61:1 Greek version reads and the blind will see. Compare Luke 4:18.
  2. 61:2 Or to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
  3. 61:3 Hebrew in Zion.

18 Christ is also the head of the church,
    which is his body.
He is the beginning,
    supreme over all who rise from the dead.[a]
    So he is first in everything.
19 For God in all his fullness
    was pleased to live in Christ,

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  1. 1:18 Or the firstborn from the dead.

Spiritual Blessings

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.

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18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
    for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,
    that the blind will see,
that the oppressed will be set free,
19     and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.[a]

20 He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. 21 Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”

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  1. 4:18-19 Or and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Isa 61:1-2 (Greek version); 58:6.

28 You have shown me the way of life,
    and you will fill me with the joy of your presence.’[a]

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  1. 2:25-28 Ps 16:8-11 (Greek version).

My daily task will be to ferret out the wicked
    and free the city of the Lord from their grip.

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29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn[a] among many brothers and sisters.

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  1. 8:29 Or would be supreme.

34 For he is sent by God. He speaks God’s words, for God gives him the Spirit without limit.

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16 From his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another.[a]

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  1. 1:16 Or received the grace of Christ rather than the grace of the law; Greek reads received grace upon grace.

I will refuse to look at
    anything vile and vulgar.
I hate all who deal crookedly;
    I will have nothing to do with them.
I will reject perverse ideas
    and stay away from every evil.

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15 But Jesus said, “It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires.[a] So John agreed to baptize him.

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  1. 3:15 Or for we must fulfill all righteousness.

Mighty King, lover of justice,
    you have established fairness.
You have acted with justice
    and righteousness throughout Israel.[a]

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  1. 99:4 Hebrew Jacob. See note on 44:4.

26 And he will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,
    my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’

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20 I have found my servant David.
    I have anointed him with my holy oil.

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For the righteous Lord loves justice.
    The virtuous will see his face.

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The kings of the earth prepare for battle;
    the rulers plot together
against the Lord
    and against his anointed one.

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16 Then anoint Jehu grandson of Nimshi[a] to be king of Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from the town of Abel-meholah to replace you as my prophet.

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  1. 19:16 Hebrew descendant of Nimshi; compare 2 Kgs 9:2, 14.

39 There Zadok the priest took the flask of olive oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon with the oil. Then they sounded the ram’s horn and all the people shouted, “Long live King Solomon!” 40 And all the people followed Solomon into Jerusalem, playing flutes and shouting for joy. The celebration was so joyous and noisy that the earth shook with the sound.

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13 So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the flask of olive oil he had brought and anointed David with the oil. And the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.

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12 Then he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, anointing him and making him holy for his work.

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27 Nothing evil[a] will be allowed to enter, nor anyone who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty—but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:27 Or ceremonially unclean.

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