Second Sunday after Christmas Day

7Verse 7. For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’ 8Verse 8. Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly! 9Verse 9. They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.” 10Verse 10. Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock. 11Verse 11. For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him. 12Verse 12. They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD — the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish. 13Verse 13. Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow. 14Verse 14. I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,”

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3Verse 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. 4Verse 4. For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love 5Verse 5. He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6Verse 6. to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One. 7Verse 7. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8Verse 8. that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. 9Verse 9. And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ 10Verse 10. as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ. 11Verse 11. In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will, 12Verse 12. in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory. 13Verse 13. And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth — the gospel of your salvation — you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14Verse 14. who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.

10Verse 10. He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. 11Verse 11. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12Verse 12. But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God — 13Verse 13. children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God. 14Verse 14. The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15Verse 15. John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’” 16Verse 16. From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace. 17Verse 17. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18Verse 18. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.