Matthew 1:22

New Century Version

All this happened to bring about what the Lord had said through the prophet:

Cross References

1 Kings 8:15

Then he said, “Praise the Lord, the God of Israel. He has done what he promised to my father David. The Lord said,

1 Kings 8:24

You have kept the promise you made to your servant David, my father. You spoke it with your own mouth and finished it with your hands today.

Ezra 1:1

In the first year Cyrus was king of Persia, the Lord caused Cyrus to send an announcement to his whole kingdom and to put it in writing. This happened so the Lord’s message spoken by Jeremiah would come true. He wrote:

Matthew 12:17

He did these things to bring about what Isaiah the prophet had said:

Matthew 13:21

But he does not let the teaching go deep into his life, so he keeps it only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the teaching he accepted, he quickly gives up.

Matthew 13:35

This is as the prophet said: “I will speak using stories; I will tell things that have been secret since the world was made.”

Matthew 2:15

And Joseph stayed in Egypt until Herod died. This happened to bring about what the Lord had said through the prophet: “I called my son out of Egypt.”

Matthew 2:23

to a town called Nazareth, and lived there. And so what God had said through the prophets came true: “He will be called a Nazarene.”

Matthew 5:17

“Don’t think that I have come to destroy the law of Moses or the teaching of the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to bring about what they said.

Matthew 8:17

He did these things to bring about what Isaiah the prophet had said: “He took our suffering on him and carried our diseases.”

Luke 21:22

These are the days of punishment to bring about all that is written in the Scriptures.

Luke 24:44

He said to them, “Remember when I was with you before? I said that everything written about me must happen—everything in the law of Moses, the books of the prophets, and the Psalms.”

John 10:35

This Scripture called those people gods who received God’s message, and Scripture is always true.

John 15:25

But this happened so that what is written in their law would be true: ‘They hated me for no reason.’

John 17:12

While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me. I protected them, and only one of them, the one worthy of destruction, was lost so that the Scripture would come true.

John 18:9

This happened so that the words Jesus said before would come true: “I have not lost any of the ones you gave me.”

Acts 3:18

God said through the prophets that his Christ would suffer and die. And now God has made these things come true in this way.

Romans 1:2

God promised this Good News long ago through his prophets, as it is written in the Holy Scriptures.

Revelation 17:17

God made the ten horns want to carry out his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until what God has said comes about.