Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,
He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed. But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you,
Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
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