Matthew 1:18

Good News Translation (US Version)

This was how the birth of Jesus Christ took place. His mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they were married, she found out that she was going to have a baby by the Holy Spirit.

Cross References

Job 14:4

Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.

Hebrews 10:5

For this reason, when Christ was about to come into the world, he said to God: “You do not want sacrifices and offerings, but you have prepared a body for me.

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel.”

Hebrews 7:26

Jesus, then, is the High Priest that meets our needs. He is holy; he has no fault or sin in him; he has been set apart from sinners and raised above the heavens.

Job 15:14

Can any human being be really pure? Can anyone be right with God?

Luke 1:25

“Now at last the Lord has helped me,” she said. “He has taken away my public disgrace!”

Matthew 1:1

This is the list of the ancestors of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, who was a descendant of Abraham.

Deuteronomy 22:23

“Suppose a man is caught in a town having intercourse with a young woman who is engaged to someone else.

Matthew 2:11

They went into the house, and when they saw the child with his mother Mary, they knelt down and worshiped him. They brought out their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and presented them to him.

Matthew 12:46

Jesus was still talking to the people when his mother and brothers arrived. They stood outside, asking to speak with him.

Luke 2:5

He went to register with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him. She was pregnant,