Then I said, Behold, I have come (In the volume of the book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God.

And again, when He brings the Firstborn into the world, He says: Let all the angels of God do homage to Him.

and said to Him, Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?

And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus, saying, Are You the Coming One, or should we expect another?

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You have not asked.

I delight to do Your will, O My God, and Your Law is within My heart.

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices, or your burnt offerings, which are continually before Me.

for every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it.

Offer to God thanksgiving, and make good your vows to the Most High,

But to the wicked God says, What is it you do, to declare My Statutes, and to take up My Covenant in your mouth;

When you saw a thief, then you were pleased to be with him, and have been a partaker with adulterers.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of well-fed cattle; nor do I delight in the blood of bulls, of lambs, or he goats.

For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not pleasing, nor are your sacrifices sweet to Me.

I hate, I despise your feast days; and I will not savor your solemn assemblies.

Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not be pleased; nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel.

How long will you vacillate, O backsliding daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the earth; a woman shall contain a man.

But while he was pondering these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying:

And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, brought forth out of a woman, brought forth under the Law,

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

For many corrupters have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a corrupter and an antichrist.