Luke 1:15

Modern English Version

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 48:19

His father refused and said, “I know it, my son, I know it. He will also become a people, and he will also be great, but truly his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”

1 Chronicles 17:8

and I have been with you wherever you went, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Also I will make your name like the names of the greatest on earth.

1 Chronicles 29:12

Riches and honor flow from You, and You rule over all. In Your hand are power and might, and in Your hand it is to make great and to strengthen all.

Psalm 22:9

But You are He who took me out of the womb; You kept me safe on my mother’s breasts.

Jeremiah 1:5

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you were born I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah 35:6

But they said, “We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rekab our father commanded us, saying, ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.

Leviticus 10:9

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

Zechariah 9:15

The Lord of Hosts will protect them. They will devour up and subdue them with stone slingers. And they will drink and make noise as with wine; they will be filled with blood as a bowl, saturated like the corners of the altar.

Luke 1:14

You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Luke 7:28

I say to you, among those who are born of women there is no greater prophet than John the Baptist. Yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

Luke 7:33

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. But you say, ‘He has a demon.’

John 5:35

He was a burning and a shining lamp, and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

Acts 2:4

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.

Galatians 1:15

But when it pleased God, who set me apart since I was in my mother’s womb and called me by His grace,

Ephesians 5:18

Do not be drunk with wine, for that is reckless living. But be filled with the Spirit.

Joshua 3:7

The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to honor you in the sight of all Israel, so that they may know that just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

Joshua 4:14

On that day, the Lord honored Joshua in the sight of all Israel. They feared him as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life.