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Matthew 3:15

Young's Literal Translation 1898

But Jesus answering said to him, ‘Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfil all righteousness,’ then he doth suffer him.

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Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.

but John was forbidding him, saying, ‘I have need by thee to be baptized — and thou dost come unto me!’

and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

‘For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

Jesus saith to them, ‘My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.’

For such a chief priest did become us — kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.