Genesis 1:1-5 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the…
Luke 2:1-20 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration…
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Luke 1:46-55 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor…
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Isaiah 40:1-5 Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term,…
Isaiah 64:1-9 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— as when…
John 3:14-15 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever…
Luke 22:7-30 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. So Jesus sent Peter and John,…
John 19:1-14 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head,…
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Isaiah 1:18 Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: If your sins are like scarlet, will they become like snow? If they…
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Matthew 10:38-39 Whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find their life will lose it,…