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Bible Verses for Advent

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Advent readings look forward to Christ's coming. Isaiah 9:2 promises a great light to “The people that walked in darkness”, Isaiah 40:3 calls us to “Prepare ye the way of the LORD”, Micah 5:2 names Bethlehem as the birthplace of the coming ruler, and Romans 13:11–12 says “The night is far spent, the day is at hand”.

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Verses for the four Sundays of Advent, candle lighting and devotions: the prophets' promises of a coming King, the call to prepare the way, and the hope of his return.

• I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

  Waiting on God and hoping in his word.

  Psalm 130:5

• Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

  Say to fearful hearts: be strong, fear not; your God will come.

  Isaiah 35:4

• Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

  Isaiah's sign: a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.

  Isaiah 7:14

• But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

  Micah named Bethlehem as the ruler's birthplace centuries ahead.

  Micah 5:2

• The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

  A great light dawns on people walking in darkness.

  Isaiah 9:2

• The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

  The voice in the wilderness: prepare the way of the Lord.

  Isaiah 40:3

• Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

  God promises a messenger to prepare the way before him.

  Malachi 3:1

• And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

  A Branch from Jesse's roots, resting in the Spirit of the LORD.

  Isaiah 11:1–2

• Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

  God will keep his promise and raise up David's righteous Branch.

  Jeremiah 33:14–15

• Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

  Zacharias praises God for the dayspring from on high.

  Luke 1:78–79

• And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

  The night is far spent: wake up and put on the armour of light.

  Romans 13:11–12

• Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

  Arise, shine: the light has come and God's glory has risen.

  Isaiah 60:1

• Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

  Your King comes to you, just, bringing salvation, and lowly.

  Zechariah 9:9

• Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

  Rejoice in the Lord always, written by Paul from prison.

  Philippians 4:4

• Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

  Like a farmer waiting for rain, be patient for the Lord's coming.

  James 5:7–8

• Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

  Christians wait for the blessed hope of Christ's glorious appearing.

  Titus 2:13

• He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

  The Bible's closing prayer: Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

  Revelation 22:20

• How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

  Beautiful are the feet of those who bring good tidings.

  Isaiah 52:7

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