TSK · Luke 2:14

Let the heavens and the earth praise him, along with the seas and everything that swims in them!

Let the sky rejoice, and the earth be happy! Let the sea and everything in it shout!

Shout for joy, O sky, for the LORD intervenes; shout out, you subterranean regions of the earth. O mountains, give a joyful shout; you too, O forest and all your trees! For the LORD protects Jacob; he reveals his splendor through Israel.

I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,” says the LORD,“and I will heal them.

He will give us peace. Should the Assyrians try to invade our land and attempt to set foot in our fortresses, we will send against them seven shepherd-rulers, make that eight commanders.

The crowds that went ahead of him and those following kept shouting,“Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven,“You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross– through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.