<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>You have made known to me the paths of life;i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>you will make me full of joy with your presenceb>.i>&#8217;<n id="1" />p>

He<n id="1" /> sent messengers on ahead of him.<n id="2" /> As they went along,<n id="3" /> they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance<n id="4" /> for him,

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy<n id="1" /> to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.<n id="2" />

Before<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> arrived, John<n id="3" /> had proclaimed a baptism for repentance<n id="4" /> to all the people of Israel.

They<n id="1" /> will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, <i>away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strengthi>,<n id="2" />

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,<n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>who will prepare your way,i>b><n id="2" />p>

This is the one about whom it is written, &#8216;<b><i>Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>who will prepare your way before youi>b>.&#8217;<n id="2" />

As<n id="1" /> he was praying,<n id="2" /> the appearance of his face was transformed,<n id="3" /> and his clothes became very bright, a brilliant white.<n id="4" />

Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,

From one man<n id="1" /> he made every nation of the human race<n id="2" /> to inhabit the entire earth,<n id="3" /> determining their set times<n id="4" /> and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,<n id="5" />

This is the one about whom it is written:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,i>b><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>who will prepare your way before youb>.i>&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">After this<n id="1" /> the Lord appointed seventy-two<n id="2" /> others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town<n id="3" /> and place where he himself was about to go.

Our<n id="1" /> ancestors<n id="2" /> received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors,<n id="3" /> until the time<n id="4" /> of David.

<t /><p class="bodytext">But if the ministry that produced death &#8211; carved in letters on stone tablets<n id="1" /> &#8211; came with glory, so that the Israelites<n id="2" /> could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face<n id="3" /> (a glory<n id="4" /> which was made ineffective),<n id="5" />

For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever.<n id="1" /> So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

They<n id="1" /> said to the mountains and to the rocks, &#8220;Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,<n id="2" />

But<n id="1" /> the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness,<n id="2" /> to the place God<n id="3" /> prepared for her, where she is taken care of &#8211; away from the presence of the serpent &#8211; for a time, times, and half a time.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I saw a large<n id="2" /> white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven<n id="3" /> fled<n id="4" /> from his presence, and no place was found for them.