you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
2 Corinthians 1:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But it is God Who confirms and makes us steadfast and establishes us [in joint fellowship] with you in Christ, and has consecrated and anointed us [enduing us with the gifts of the Holy Spirit]; American Standard Version (1901) Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; Common English Bible God is the one who establishes us with you in Christ and who anointed us. Catholic Public Domain Version Now the One who confirms us with you in Christ, and who has anointed us, is God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ, and that hath anointed us, is God: |
you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
And of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in it,” for the Most High himself will establish it.
‘I will establish your descendants forever and build your throne for all generations.’ ” Selah
Thus says the Lord: In a time of favor I have answered you; on a day of salvation I have helped you; I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages,
And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord: my spirit that is upon you and my words that I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth or out of the mouths of your children or out of the mouths of your children’s children, says the Lord, from now on and forever.
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners,
and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it renowned throughout the earth.
Great will be his authority, and there shall be endless peace for the throne of David and his kingdom. He will establish and uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time onward and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
This is the portion allotted to Aaron and to his sons from the offerings made by fire to the Lord, once they have been brought forward to serve the Lord as priests;
“Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed and found a city on iniquity!”
He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Now to God who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a down payment.
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his mouth, annihilating him by the manifestation of his coming.
But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who observe them.
And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.
As for you, the anointing that you received from him abides in you, so you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, abide in him.
and made us a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Therefore I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white robes to clothe yourself and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.