God’s Word Interprets God’s Word

The Good News of Jesus Christ is that God promises to save His people from their sins, removing them from the family of Satan, who are taken out of every nation, peoples, even tribes and languages. Their salvation is conditioned solely on the atoning shed blood of Jesus Christ and His imputed Righteousness

Matthew 1:21 Revelation 7:9 Acts 20:28 Ephesians 1:3-2:3 Ephesians 2:4-10 Romans 1:16-17 Romans 3 Romans 4 Romans 8 Romans 9 Romans 10 Romans 11 Hebrews 9 Hebrews 10 John 6:37-44, 65 Philippians 1:6 Philippians 2:12-13 Mark 16:16

John 1:13 – Generated

who were born not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born ( generated) of God.

John 3:3,5,8– Generated from above

Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, if one does not ( is not) (generated) receive birth from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.

John 3:5

Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, if one does not receive birth out of water and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.

John 3:8 – Spirit moves sovereignly

The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice; but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who has received birth from the Spirit.

John 3:34– God gave not the Spirit by measure

For the One whom God sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

Romans 12:3 – gives , divided

For through the grace which is given to me, I say to everyone being among you, not to have high thoughts beyond what is right to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God divided a measure of faith to each.

John 6:29– Work

Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe into Him whom that One sent.

John 3:26-27– Come

And they came to and said to him, Teacher the one who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have witnessed, behold, this one baptizes, and all are coming to Him.

3:27 answered and said, A man is able to receive nothing unless it has been given to him from Heaven.

John 6:37– Give

All that the Father gives to Me shall come to Me, and the one coming to Me I will in no way cast out.

John 6:39– Not lose

And this is the will of the Father sending Me, that of all that He has given Me, I shall not lose any of it, but shall raise it up in the last day.

John 6:44– Draws

No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

John 6:47– Has eternal life

Truly, truly, I say to you, the one believing into Me has everlasting life.

John 6:65– Given

And He said, Because of this, I have told you that no one is able to come to Me except it is given to him from My Father.

John 10: 15– Lays down His life for the sheep

Even as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

John 10:16- Hearing

And I have other sheep which are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock, one Shepherd.

John 10:27– Effectual hearing

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

Matthew 13:11– Given

And answering, He said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, but it has not been given to those.

10:28 And I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish to the age, and not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand.

Matthew 13:16 – Blessed

But your eyes are blessed because they see; and your ears because they hear.

Matthew 15:14– Leave them alone

Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.

John 15:16– Chosen

You have not chosen Me, but I chose you out and planted you, that you should go and should bear fruit, and your fruit remain, that whatever you should ask the Father in My name, He may give you.

Acts 13:48- Appointed

And hearing, the nations rejoiced and glorified the Word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

1 Peter 2:8– Appointed

and a Stone-of-stumbling, and a Rock-of-offense” to those disobeying, stumbling at the word, to which they were also appointed.

Acts 16:14- Opened

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, one reverencing God, listened, whose heart the Lord opened thoroughly to pay attention to the things being spoken by Paul.

Acts 20:28- Purchased, Placed

Then take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased through His own blood.

Romans 8:28-31– Foreknown, predestinated, called, justified and glorified

But we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose;

8:29 because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.

8:30 But whom He predestinated, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; but whom He justified, these He also glorified.

8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Roman 8:33- God who justifies

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? God is the One justifying!

Romans 9:11– Unconditional election, unconditional reprobation

for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of the One calling,

Romans 9:13– Unconditional love and hate

even as it has been written, “I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau.” Mal. 1:2, 3

Romans 9:15,16,18– Mercies, hardens

For He said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will pity whomever I will pity.” Ex. 33:19

Romans 9:16- Not by the will of man

So, then, it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of the One showing mercy, of God.

Romans 9:17– Raised up

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very thing I raised you up, so that I might show forth My power in you, and so that My name might be publicized in all the earth.” Ex. 9:16

Romans 9:18– Shows mercy, Hardens

So, then, to whom He desires, He shows mercy. And to whom He desires, He hardens.

Exodus 4:21– Hardens

And Jehovah said to Moses, As you go to return to Egypt, see all the wonders which I have put in your hand, and do them before Pharaoh. And I will harden his heart, and he will not send the people away.

Luke 18:13 –Shows mercy, justified

And standing at a distance, the tax collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner!

18:14 I say to you, this one went down to his house having been justified, rather than that one. For everyone exalting himself will be humbled. And the one humbling himself will be exalted.

James 2:5– Choose

Hear, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to the ones loving Him?

Exodus 33:19– I will mercy whom I choose

And He said, I will cause all My goodness to pass before your face. And I will call out the name of Jehovah before your face. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.

Romans 9:19-21–25

You will then say to me, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will?

9:20 Yes, rather, O man, who are you answering against God? Shall the thing formed say to the One forming it , Why did You make me like this? Isa. 29:

9:21 Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, out of the one lump to make one vessel to honor, and (make)one to dishonor? Jer. 18:69:

22 But if God, desiring to show forth wrath, and to make His power known, endured in much long-suffering vessels of wrath having been fitted out for destruction,

9:23 and that ( in order that) He make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy which He before prepared for glory,

9:24 whom He also called, not only us, of Jews, but also out of nations.

9:25 As also He says in Hosea, I will call those not My people, My people! And those not beloved, Beloved! Hosea 2:23

Romans 9:21-Makes

Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, out of the one lump to make one vessel to honor, and (make) one to dishonor? Jer. 18:6

Romans 9:22-Makes, wills, fits

But if God, desiring to show forth wrath, and to make His power known, endured in much long-suffering vessels of wrath having been fitted out for destruction,

Romans 9:23-Make known, prepared

and that ( in order that) He make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy which He before prepared for glory,

Ephesians 2:5 – Made us alive

even we being dead in sins, He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are being saved)

2 Corinthians 5:17– New creation

So that if anyone is in Christ, that one is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new!

2 Thessalonians 2:13– Chose

But we ought to thank God always concerning you, brothers, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,

1 Corinthians 4:7– Received

For who makes you to differ? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it , why do you boast as if you did not receive?

Titus 2:11– Appeared

For the saving grace of God (Jesus Christ ?) has appeared to all men,

Proverbs 3:12– God corrects

for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son with whom he is pleased.

Psalms 105:25 – Turned

He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.

Proverbs 16:4– Makes

Jehovah has made all for His purpose, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Deuteronomy 2:21- Destroyed

a great and plentiful people, and tall as the Anakim. And Jehovah destroyed them before them, and they expelled them, and lived in their place;

Deuteronomy 2:30– Hardened

And Sihon the king of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass by him, for Jehovah your God had hardened his spirit, and had emboldened his heart, so as to give him into your hand, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 4:35 – Revealed

To you it was revealed, so that you might know that Jehovah is God, and no one else besides Him.

Deuteronomy 4:36- Hear

He made you hear His voice out of the heavens, that He might discipline you; and He made you to see His great fire on earth; and you heard His word from the midst of the fire.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8– Chosen unconditionally

For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be His own treasure out of all the people on the face of the earth.

7:7 Jehovah did not set His love on you or choose you because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

7:8 But because Jehovah loved you, and because He kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, Jehovah has caused you to go out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 29:4- Causes to know, hear, see

Yet Jehovah has not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

Amos 3:2- Known

You only have I known of all the families of the earth. On account of this, I will punish you for all your iniquities.

2 Corinthians 4:6– God shines

Because it is God who said, “Out of darkness Light shall shine,” who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Isa. 42:6, 7, 16

1 Corinthians 2:8 Lack of knowledge

which none of the rulers of this age has known. For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

Jeremiah 1:5– Forms

I knew you before I formed you in the belly; and before you came out of the womb, I consecrated you. I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

Isaiah 29:10 – Poured out on

for Jehovah has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes. He has covered the prophets and your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 41:8– Chosen

But you Israel are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen; the seed of My friend Abraham

Isaiah 41:10- Make

Do not fear, for I am with you; do not gaze about, for I am your God; I will make you strong; yea, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.

Isaiah 42:5– Creating, giving

So says Jehovah God, creating the heavens and stretching them out; spreading out the earth and its offspring, giving breath to the people on it, and spirit to those walking in it.

Isaiah 42:7 Open , deliver

to open blind eyes, to deliver the prisoner from the prison; those who sit in darkness from the prison

Isaiah 42:9 – Reveal, cause

Behold, the former things have come to pass, and I declare new things before they happen, I cause you to hear.

Isaiah 43:1– formed, redeemed, called

But now so says Jehovah who formed you, O Jacob; and He who made you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I called you by your name; you are Mine.

Isaiah 43:3– Gave

For I am Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt for your atonement; Ethiopia and Seba instead of you.

Isaiah 43:4– Give

Since you were precious in My eyes, you are honored, and I love you; and I give men instead of you; and peoples instead of your soul.

Isaiah 43:7- Created, called, formed, made

everyone who is called by My name, and I have created him for My glory; I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

Isaiah 43:12– Declared, saved, proclaimed

I declared, and I saved, and I proclaimed; and there is not an alien god among you. And you are My witnesses, says Jehovah, and I am God.

Isaiah 43:13– Work

Yea, from this day I am He, and no one delivers from My hand. I will work, and who will reverse it?

Isaiah 43:15– Creating

I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

Isaiah 43:21– Formed

The people that I formed for Myself shall declare My praise.

Isaiah 44:18– Smeared

They do not know, nor discern; for He has smeared their eyes from seeing, their hearts from understanding.

Isaiah 45:5 – I will

I am Jehovah, and there is none else; there is no God except Me. I will clothe you, though you do not know Me,

Isaiah 45:7 – Forming, creating, making

forming light, and creating darkness; making peace, and creating evil.

Isaiah 45:9– Former

Woe to him who fights with the One who formed him! A potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to its former, What are you making? Or does your work say, He has no hands?

Isaiah 45:11– Former, work

So says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and the One who formed him, Do you ask Me of the things to come? Do you give command to Me about My sons, and about the work of My hands?

Isaiah 45:12– Made, created

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands; and I have set all their host in order.

Isaiah 45:13– Raised, made

I raised him up in righteousness, and have made straight all his ways. He shall build My city, and he will release My captives; not for price, nor for reward, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Isaiah 45:18- Creating, forming, making

For so says Jehovah, Creator of the heavens; He is God, forming the earth and making it; He makes it stand, not creating it empty, but forming it to be inhabited. I am Jehovah, and there is none else.

Isaiah 46:10– Declaring, I will do

declaring the end from the beginning, and from the past those things which were not done, saying, My purpose shall rise; and, I will do all My desire;

Isaiah 46:11– Calling, I will, formed

calling a bird of prey from the sunrise, the man of My counsel from a far off land. Yes, I have spoken; yes, I will cause it to come; I have formed; yes, I will do it.

Isaiah 48:9– I will

For My name’s sake I will put off My anger; and for My praise I will hold back for you, so as not to cut you off.

Isaiah 48:10 – Refined, chosen

Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Isaiah 48:11– I will

For My sake, for My sake, I will act; for how is it defiled? And I will not give My glory to another.

Isaiah 48:12– Called

Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called: I am He; I am the first; I surely am the last.

Isaiah 48:13- Founded, called

My hand surely founded earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens; I called to them, they stood up together.

Isaiah 49:1– Called

Hear Me, coastlands, and you people from afar, and prick up your ear , Jehovah called Me from the womb; He mentioned My name from My mother’s belly.

Isaiah 49:2– Made

And He made My mouth like a sharp sword; He hid Me in the shadow of His hand, and made Me a polished arrow; He hid me in His quiver;

Isaiah 49:5- Forming

And now, says Jehovah who formed Me from the womb to be His servant, to bring Jacob back to Him: Though Israel is not gathered, yet I am honored in the eye of Jehovah, and My God is My strength.

Isaiah 49: 6– I will

And He said, It is too little that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You for a light of the nations, that You may be My salvation to the end of the earth.

Isaiah 49:8– I will

So says Jehovah: In a favorable time I have answered You, and in a day of salvation I have helped You. And I will preserve You, and give You for a covenant of the people; to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolated inheritances;

Isaiah 55:11– God accomplishes

so shall My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall do that which I please, and it shall prosper (in) that which I sent it ( to do)

1 Samuel 2:6- Causes to die, keeps alive, brings down, brings up

Jehovah kills, and keeps alive; He brings down and causes to go to Sheol.

1 Samuel 2:7– brings out, gives wealth, brings low, lifts up

1 Samuel 2:8 He raises the poor, He lifts up the needy, He causes to inherit

He raised the poor from the dust; He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to cause them to sit with nobles; yea, He caused them to inherit a throne of honor; for to Jehovah are the pillars of the earth; and He sets the habitable world on them.

1 Samuel 2:10- Gives strength, exalts

They who strive with Jehovah will be smashed; He thunders in the heavens against him; Jehovah judges the ends of the earth, and gives strength to His king, and exalts the horn of His anointed.

Matthew 21:44– Rock

And he who falls on this Stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.

1 Samuel 2:25– Caused to die

If a man sins against a man, then God shall judge him. But if a man sins against Jehovah, who shall pray for him? But they did not listen to the voice of their father, because Jehovah desired to execute them

Job 5:17– God corrects

Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects; and despise not the chastisement of the Almighty

Job 9:6– Shakes the earth

who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;

Job 9:9– Made

Who made the Bear, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

Job 9:12– He takes away

Behold, He takes away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?

Job 10:9 formed me, will you bring me to dust again?

Job 10:18 – Bring me from the womb
Why then did You bring me from the womb? I would have died, and no eye seen me.

Job 12:14– Behold, He breaks down, and no one builds, He shuts against a man, and no one opens.

Matthew 1:21- Jesus means He will save His people

And she will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.

Matthew 1:23- Called Emanuel God with us

Behold! The virgin will conceive in her womb and will bear a son, and they will call His name Emmanuel” (which translated is, God with us). Isa. 7:14

Matthew 11:25– Hidden, reveal

Answering at that time, Jesus said, I praise You, Father, Lord of Heaven and of Earth, because You hid these things from the sophisticated and cunning and revealed them to babes.

Acts 2:23- Predestined according to the purpose of God for the benefit of His people

this One given to you by the before-determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you having taken by lawless hands, having crucified Him , you put Him to death.

Acts 4:25-28– The Cross of Jesus Christ predestined by God

who through the mouth of Your servant David said, “Why did the nations rage, and the people meditated foolish things.

4:26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were assembled on the same day against the Lord, yea, against His Christ.” Psa. 2:1,

For truly both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together against Your holy child Jesus, whom You anointed,

4:28 to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel before-determined to be done.

1 Corinthians 1:18-

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.

1:19 For it has been written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.” Isa. 29:14

1:20 Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the lawyer of this world? Did God not make the wisdom of this world foolish?

1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing.

1:22 And since Jews ask for a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,

1:23 we on the other hand preach Christ crucified (truly an offense to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks),

1:24 but to the called-out ones, both to Jews and to Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

1:25 because the foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

1:26 For you see your calling, brothers, that there are not many wise according to flesh, nor many powerful, not many wellborn.

1:27 But God chose the foolish things of the world that the wise might be put to shame, and God chose the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things.

1:28 And God chose the low-born of the world, and the despised, and the things that are not, so that He might bring to nothing the things that are,

1:29 so that no flesh might glory in His presence.

1:30 But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

1:31 so that even as it has been written, “He that glories, let him glory in” the “Lord.” Jer. 9:24

Matthew 11:27- 30 Given, reveal, purposes

All things were yielded up (Given) to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him .

11:28 Come to Me, all those laboring and being burdened, and I will give you rest.

11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, “and you will find rest to your souls.” Jer. 6:16

11:30 For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.

Matthew 15:30– Healed them

And great crowds came to Him, having with them lame ones, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others. And they flung them down at the feet of Jesus. And He healed them;

Matthew 16:15-18– Reveal, build

He said to them, But you, whom do you say Me to be?

16:16 And answering, Simon Peter said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

16:17 And answering, Jesus said to him, Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father in Heaven.

16:18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against her.

Matthew 15:13– Planted

But answering, He said, Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.

Luke 10:21– Revealed

In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, I praise You, Father, Lord of Heaven and of earth, that You hid these things from the sophisticated and cunning and revealed them to babes; yes, Father, because so it was pleasing before You.

Luke 10:22- Revealed

All things were delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father; and who is the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may desire to reveal Him .

Revelation 17:17– put into the heart

For God gave ( put) into their hearts to do His mind, and to act in one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

1 John 5:4- generated

Because everything having been born (Generated) of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory overcoming the world, our faith.

highlights italics are added for emphasis

Scripture taken from Jay P. Green Literal translation 1993