Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
68 “Blessed be the Lord God[a] of Israel, because He visited us and accomplished[b] redemption for His people, 69 and raised-up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David His servant (70 just as He spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from the past age[c]), 71 a salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all the ones hating us, 72 so as to show mercy to[d] our fathers and remember[e] His holy covenant (73 the oath which He swore to Abraham our father)— that He might grant to us that 74 having been delivered from the hand of our enemies, we might be serving[f] Him fearlessly 75 in holiness and righteousness before Him for all our days. 76 And indeed you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most-High. For you will go before the Lord so as to prepare His ways[g], 77 that you might give[h] His people the knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins 78 because of the deep-feelings-of mercy of our God, with which[i] the rising[j] Sun from on-high will visit us 79 so as to shine-upon the ones sitting in darkness and a shadow of death, that He might direct[k] our feet into the way of peace”.
I Thank God For Your Partnership With Me In The Gospel
3 I am giving-thanks to my God upon every remembrance of you, 4 always in my every petition for you all making the petition with joy 5 on-the-basis-of your partnership[a] for the good-news from the first day until the present, 6 being confident-of this very thing: that the One having begun a good work in you will perfect[b] it until the day of Christ— 7 just as it is right for me to think this about you all because of my having you[c] in my heart, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation[d] of the good-news, you all being my co-partners[e] of grace. 8 For God is my witness how I am yearning-for you all with the deep-feelings[f] of Christ Jesus.
May Your Love Abound Still More In Knowledge Leading To Holiness
9 And I am praying this: that your love may be abounding still more and more in knowledge and all perception[g] 10 so that you may be approving the things mattering[h], in-order-that[i] you might be pure and blameless[j] for[k] the day of Christ, 11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
In The Fifteenth Year of Tiberius, John Is Sent Out By God
3 Now in the fifteenth[a] year of the government of Tiberius[b] Caesar— Pontius Pilate[c] being-governor of Judea, and Herod[d] being-tetrarch[e] of Galilee, and Philip[f] his brother being tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias being tetrarch of Abilene, 2 in-the-time-of the high priest Annas and Caiaphas— the word of God came to[g] John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.
John Proclaims a Baptism of Repentance, In Fulfillment of Isaiah
3 And he went into all the surrounding-region of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, 4 as it has been written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet [in Isa 40:3-5], “A voice of one shouting in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; be making His paths straight. 5 Every valley will be filled and every mountain and hill will be made-low. And the crooked paths will become straight, and the rough will become smooth paths. 6 And all flesh will see the salvation of God’”.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing