Luke 1:15

World Messianic Bible British Edition

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. 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. You will be a blessing.

Genesis 48:19

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

1 Chronicles 17:8

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

1 Chronicles 29:12

Both riches and honour come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

Psalm 22:9

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.

Jeremiah 1:5

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah 35:6

But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you nor your children, forever.

Leviticus 10:9

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Zechariah 9:15

The LORD of Hosts will defend them. They will destroy and overcome with sling stones. They will drink, and roar as through wine. They will be filled like bowls, 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

“For I tell you, amongst those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than Yochanan the Immerser; yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”

Luke 7:33

For Yochanan the Immerser came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

John 5:35

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

Acts 2:4

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Galatians 1:15

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,

Ephesians 5:18

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Joshua 3:7

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

Joshua 4:14

On that day, the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.