Philippians 2:7 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式；

2:7 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式；
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式；既有人的样子，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式；既有人的样子，
当代译本 - 反而甘愿放下一切，取了奴仆的形象，降生为人的样子。
圣经新译本 - 反而倒空自己，取了奴仆的形象，成为人的样式；
中文标准译本 - 反而倒空自己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式，以人的形态出现，
现代标点和合本 - 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式；
和合本（拼音版） - 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式。
New International Version - rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
New International Reader's Version - Instead, he made himself nothing. He did this by taking on the nature of a servant. He was made just like human beings.
English Standard Version - but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
New Living Translation - Instead, he gave up his divine privileges ; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form,
Christian Standard Bible - Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man,
New American Standard Bible - but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men.
New King James Version - but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
Amplified Bible - but emptied Himself [without renouncing or diminishing His deity, but only temporarily giving up the outward expression of divine equality and His rightful dignity] by assuming the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men [He became completely human but was without sin, being fully God and fully man].
American Standard Version - but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;
King James Version - But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
New English Translation - but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.
World English Bible - but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
新標點和合本 - 反倒虛己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式；
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 反倒虛己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式；既有人的樣子，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 反倒虛己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式；既有人的樣子，
當代譯本 - 反而甘願放下一切，取了奴僕的形像，降生為人的樣子。
聖經新譯本 - 反而倒空自己，取了奴僕的形象，成為人的樣式；
呂振中譯本 - 反而將自己傾倒出來，取了奴僕的形質，成為人的樣式。
中文標準譯本 - 反而倒空自己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式，以人的形態出現，
現代標點和合本 - 反倒虛己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式；
文理和合譯本 - 乃虛己取僕之狀、成人之形、
文理委辦譯本 - 然猶虛己、誕降為人、以僕自處、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 然猶虛己、誕降人身、以僕自處、誕降人身以僕自處原文作取僕之狀形體似人、性情似人、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 乃屈尊紆貴、甘自為僕、而降生為人。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Por el contrario, se rebajó voluntariamente, tomando la naturaleza de siervo y haciéndose semejante a los seres humanos.
현대인의 성경 - 오히려 자기의 모든 특권을 버리시고 종의 모습으로 사람들과 같이 되어
Новый Русский Перевод - а наоборот, унизил Себя, приняв природу раба; Он стал подобным людям. Став и по виду как человек,
Восточный перевод - а, наоборот, унизил Себя, приняв природу раба; Он стал подобным людям. Став и по виду как человек,
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - а, наоборот, унизил Себя, приняв природу раба; Он стал подобным людям. Став и по виду как человек,
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - а, наоборот, унизил Себя, приняв природу раба; Он стал подобным людям. Став и по виду как человек,
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - mais il s’est dépouillé lui-même, et il a pris la condition d’un serviteur en se rendant semblable aux hommes : se trouvant ainsi reconnu à son aspect, comme un simple homme,
リビングバイブル - かえって、その偉大な力と栄光を捨てて奴隷の姿をとり、人間と同じになられました。
Nestle Aland 28 - ἀλλ’ ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσεν μορφὴν δούλου λαβών, ἐν ὁμοιώματι ἀνθρώπων γενόμενος· καὶ σχήματι εὑρεθεὶς ὡς ἄνθρωπος
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἀλλὰ ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσεν, μορφὴν δούλου λαβών, ἐν ὁμοιώματι ἀνθρώπων γενόμενος. καὶ σχήματι εὑρεθεὶς ὡς ἄνθρωπος,
Nova Versão Internacional - mas esvaziou-se a si mesmo, vindo a ser servo , tornando-se semelhante aos homens.
Hoffnung für alle - Nein, er verzichtete darauf und wurde einem Sklaven gleich: Er wurde wie jeder andere Mensch geboren und war in allem ein Mensch wie wir.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ngài đã từ bỏ chính mình, chịu thân phận đầy tớ, và trở nên giống như loài người. Ngài hiện ra như một người,
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พระองค์กลับทรงสละทุกสิ่ง มารับสภาพ ทาส บังเกิดเป็นมนุษย์
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระองค์กลับสละทุกสิ่ง โดยรับสภาพเป็นผู้รับใช้ และมาเกิดในลักษณะของมนุษย์

交叉引用

Zechariah 3:8 - “‘Careful, High Priest Joshua—both you and your friends sitting here with you, for your friends are in on this, too! Here’s what I’m doing next: I’m introducing my servant Branch. And note this: This stone that I’m placing before Joshua, a single stone with seven eyes’—Decree of God-of-the-Angel-Armies—‘I’ll engrave with these words: “I’ll strip this land of its filthy sin, all at once, in a single day.”
Ezekiel 34:23 - “‘I’ll appoint one shepherd over them all: my servant David. He’ll feed them. He’ll be their shepherd. And I, God, will be their God. My servant David will be their prince. I, God, have spoken.
Mark 9:12 - Jesus replied, “Elijah does come first and get everything ready for the coming of the Son of Man. They treated this Elijah like dirt, much like they will treat the Son of Man, who will, according to Scripture, suffer terribly and be kicked around contemptibly.”
Isaiah 49:7 - God, Redeemer of Israel, The Holy of Israel, says to the despised one, kicked around by the nations, slave labor to the ruling class: “Kings will see, get to their feet—the princes, too— and then fall on their faces in homage Because of God, who has faithfully kept his word, The Holy of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Psalms 22:6 - And here I am, a nothing—an earthworm, something to step on, to squash. Everyone pokes fun at me; they make faces at me, they shake their heads: “Let’s see how God handles this one; since God likes him so much, let him help him!”
Hebrews 2:10 - It makes good sense that the God who got everything started and keeps everything going now completes the work by making the Salvation Pioneer perfect through suffering as he leads all these people to glory. Since the One who saves and those who are saved have a common origin, Jesus doesn’t hesitate to treat them as family, saying, I’ll tell my good friends, my brothers and sisters, all I know about you; I’ll join them in worship and praise to you. Again, he puts himself in the same family circle when he says, Even I live by placing my trust in God. And yet again, I’m here with the children God gave me.
Hebrews 2:14 - Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it’s logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By embracing death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil’s hold on death and freed all who cower through life, scared to death of death.
Hebrews 2:16 - It’s obvious, of course, that he didn’t go to all this trouble for angels. It was for people like us, children of Abraham. That’s why he had to enter into every detail of human life. Then, when he came before God as high priest to get rid of the people’s sins, he would have already experienced it all himself—all the pain, all the testing—and would be able to help where help was needed.
John 13:3 - Jesus knew that the Father had put him in complete charge of everything, that he came from God and was on his way back to God. So he got up from the supper table, set aside his robe, and put on an apron. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, drying them with his apron. When he got to Simon Peter, Peter said, “Master, you wash my feet?”
John 13:7 - Jesus answered, “You don’t understand now what I’m doing, but it will be clear enough to you later.”
John 13:8 - Peter persisted, “You’re not going to wash my feet—ever!” Jesus said, “If I don’t wash you, you can’t be part of what I’m doing.”
John 13:9 - “Master!” said Peter. “Not only my feet, then. Wash my hands! Wash my head!”
John 13:10 - Jesus said, “If you’ve had a bath in the morning, you only need your feet washed now and you’re clean from head to toe. My concern, you understand, is holiness, not hygiene. So now you’re clean. But not every one of you.” (He knew who was betraying him. That’s why he said, “Not every one of you.”) After he had finished washing their feet, he took his robe, put it back on, and went back to his place at the table.
John 13:12 - Then he said, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You address me as ‘Teacher’ and ‘Master,’ and rightly so. That is what I am. So if I, the Master and Teacher, washed your feet, you must now wash each other’s feet. I’ve laid down a pattern for you. What I’ve done, you do. I’m only pointing out the obvious. A servant is not ranked above his master; an employee doesn’t give orders to the employer. If you understand what I’m telling you, act like it—and live a blessed life.
Zechariah 9:9 - “Shout and cheer, Daughter Zion! Raise your voice, Daughter Jerusalem! Your king is coming! a good king who makes all things right, a humble king riding a donkey, a mere colt of a donkey. I’ve had it with war—no more chariots in Ephraim, no more war horses in Jerusalem, no more swords and spears, bows and arrows. He will offer peace to the nations, a peaceful rule worldwide, from the four winds to the seven seas.
Isaiah 42:1 - “Take a good look at my servant. I’m backing him to the hilt. He’s the one I chose, and I couldn’t be more pleased with him. I’ve bathed him with my Spirit, my life. He’ll set everything right among the nations. He won’t call attention to what he does with loud speeches or gaudy parades. He won’t brush aside the bruised and the hurt and he won’t disregard the small and insignificant, but he’ll steadily and firmly set things right. He won’t tire out and quit. He won’t be stopped until he’s finished his work—to set things right on earth. Far-flung ocean islands wait expectantly for his teaching.”
Isaiah 52:13 - “Just watch my servant blossom! Exalted, tall, head and shoulders above the crowd! But he didn’t begin that way. At first everyone was appalled. He didn’t even look human— a ruined face, disfigured past recognition. Nations all over the world will be in awe, taken aback, kings shocked into silence when they see him. For what was unheard of they’ll see with their own eyes, what was unthinkable they’ll have right before them.”
Isaiah 53:2 - The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum. But the fact is, it was our pains he carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed. We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost. We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him.
Isaiah 53:11 - Out of that terrible travail of soul, he’ll see that it’s worth it and be glad he did it. Through what he experienced, my righteous one, my servant, will make many “righteous ones,” as he himself carries the burden of their sins. Therefore I’ll reward him extravagantly— the best of everything, the highest honors— Because he looked death in the face and didn’t flinch, because he embraced the company of the lowest. He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many, he took up the cause of all the black sheep.
Luke 22:27 - “Who would you rather be: the one who eats the dinner or the one who serves the dinner? You’d rather eat and be served, right? But I’ve taken my place among you as the one who serves. And you’ve stuck with me through thick and thin. Now I confer on you the royal authority my Father conferred on me so you can eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and be strengthened as you take up responsibilities among the congregations of God’s people.
Romans 15:3 - That’s exactly what Jesus did. He didn’t make it easy for himself by avoiding people’s troubles, but waded right in and helped out. “I took on the troubles of the troubled,” is the way Scripture puts it. Even if it was written in Scripture long ago, you can be sure it’s written for us. God wants the combination of his steady, constant calling and warm, personal counsel in Scripture to come to characterize us, keeping us alert for whatever he will do next. May our dependably steady and warmly personal God develop maturity in you so that you get along with each other as well as Jesus gets along with us all. Then we’ll be a choir—not our voices only, but our very lives singing in harmony in a stunning anthem to the God and Father of our Master Jesus!
Romans 8:3 - God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
John 1:14 - The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, Generous inside and out, true from start to finish.
Galatians 4:4 - But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law so that he might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law. Thus we have been set free to experience our rightful heritage. You can tell for sure that you are now fully adopted as his own children because God sent the Spirit of his Son into our lives crying out, “Papa! Father!” Doesn’t that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a slave, but a child? And if you are a child, you’re also an heir, with complete access to the inheritance.

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式；
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式；既有人的样子，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式；既有人的样子，
当代译本 - 反而甘愿放下一切，取了奴仆的形象，降生为人的样子。
圣经新译本 - 反而倒空自己，取了奴仆的形象，成为人的样式；
中文标准译本 - 反而倒空自己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式，以人的形态出现，
现代标点和合本 - 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式；
和合本（拼音版） - 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式。
New International Version - rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
New International Reader's Version - Instead, he made himself nothing. He did this by taking on the nature of a servant. He was made just like human beings.
English Standard Version - but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
New Living Translation - Instead, he gave up his divine privileges ; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form,
Christian Standard Bible - Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man,
New American Standard Bible - but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men.
New King James Version - but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
Amplified Bible - but emptied Himself [without renouncing or diminishing His deity, but only temporarily giving up the outward expression of divine equality and His rightful dignity] by assuming the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men [He became completely human but was without sin, being fully God and fully man].
American Standard Version - but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;
King James Version - But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
New English Translation - but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.
World English Bible - but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
新標點和合本 - 反倒虛己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式；
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 反倒虛己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式；既有人的樣子，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 反倒虛己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式；既有人的樣子，
當代譯本 - 反而甘願放下一切，取了奴僕的形像，降生為人的樣子。
聖經新譯本 - 反而倒空自己，取了奴僕的形象，成為人的樣式；
呂振中譯本 - 反而將自己傾倒出來，取了奴僕的形質，成為人的樣式。
中文標準譯本 - 反而倒空自己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式，以人的形態出現，
現代標點和合本 - 反倒虛己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式；
文理和合譯本 - 乃虛己取僕之狀、成人之形、
文理委辦譯本 - 然猶虛己、誕降為人、以僕自處、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 然猶虛己、誕降人身、以僕自處、誕降人身以僕自處原文作取僕之狀形體似人、性情似人、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 乃屈尊紆貴、甘自為僕、而降生為人。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Por el contrario, se rebajó voluntariamente, tomando la naturaleza de siervo y haciéndose semejante a los seres humanos.
현대인의 성경 - 오히려 자기의 모든 특권을 버리시고 종의 모습으로 사람들과 같이 되어
Новый Русский Перевод - а наоборот, унизил Себя, приняв природу раба; Он стал подобным людям. Став и по виду как человек,
Восточный перевод - а, наоборот, унизил Себя, приняв природу раба; Он стал подобным людям. Став и по виду как человек,
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - а, наоборот, унизил Себя, приняв природу раба; Он стал подобным людям. Став и по виду как человек,
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - а, наоборот, унизил Себя, приняв природу раба; Он стал подобным людям. Став и по виду как человек,
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - mais il s’est dépouillé lui-même, et il a pris la condition d’un serviteur en se rendant semblable aux hommes : se trouvant ainsi reconnu à son aspect, comme un simple homme,
リビングバイブル - かえって、その偉大な力と栄光を捨てて奴隷の姿をとり、人間と同じになられました。
Nestle Aland 28 - ἀλλ’ ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσεν μορφὴν δούλου λαβών, ἐν ὁμοιώματι ἀνθρώπων γενόμενος· καὶ σχήματι εὑρεθεὶς ὡς ἄνθρωπος
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἀλλὰ ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσεν, μορφὴν δούλου λαβών, ἐν ὁμοιώματι ἀνθρώπων γενόμενος. καὶ σχήματι εὑρεθεὶς ὡς ἄνθρωπος,
Nova Versão Internacional - mas esvaziou-se a si mesmo, vindo a ser servo , tornando-se semelhante aos homens.
Hoffnung für alle - Nein, er verzichtete darauf und wurde einem Sklaven gleich: Er wurde wie jeder andere Mensch geboren und war in allem ein Mensch wie wir.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ngài đã từ bỏ chính mình, chịu thân phận đầy tớ, và trở nên giống như loài người. Ngài hiện ra như một người,
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พระองค์กลับทรงสละทุกสิ่ง มารับสภาพ ทาส บังเกิดเป็นมนุษย์
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระองค์กลับสละทุกสิ่ง โดยรับสภาพเป็นผู้รับใช้ และมาเกิดในลักษณะของมนุษย์

Zechariah 3:8 - “‘Careful, High Priest Joshua—both you and your friends sitting here with you, for your friends are in on this, too! Here’s what I’m doing next: I’m introducing my servant Branch. And note this: This stone that I’m placing before Joshua, a single stone with seven eyes’—Decree of God-of-the-Angel-Armies—‘I’ll engrave with these words: “I’ll strip this land of its filthy sin, all at once, in a single day.”
Ezekiel 34:23 - “‘I’ll appoint one shepherd over them all: my servant David. He’ll feed them. He’ll be their shepherd. And I, God, will be their God. My servant David will be their prince. I, God, have spoken.
Mark 9:12 - Jesus replied, “Elijah does come first and get everything ready for the coming of the Son of Man. They treated this Elijah like dirt, much like they will treat the Son of Man, who will, according to Scripture, suffer terribly and be kicked around contemptibly.”
Isaiah 49:7 - God, Redeemer of Israel, The Holy of Israel, says to the despised one, kicked around by the nations, slave labor to the ruling class: “Kings will see, get to their feet—the princes, too— and then fall on their faces in homage Because of God, who has faithfully kept his word, The Holy of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Psalms 22:6 - And here I am, a nothing—an earthworm, something to step on, to squash. Everyone pokes fun at me; they make faces at me, they shake their heads: “Let’s see how God handles this one; since God likes him so much, let him help him!”
Hebrews 2:10 - It makes good sense that the God who got everything started and keeps everything going now completes the work by making the Salvation Pioneer perfect through suffering as he leads all these people to glory. Since the One who saves and those who are saved have a common origin, Jesus doesn’t hesitate to treat them as family, saying, I’ll tell my good friends, my brothers and sisters, all I know about you; I’ll join them in worship and praise to you. Again, he puts himself in the same family circle when he says, Even I live by placing my trust in God. And yet again, I’m here with the children God gave me.
Hebrews 2:14 - Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it’s logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By embracing death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil’s hold on death and freed all who cower through life, scared to death of death.
Hebrews 2:16 - It’s obvious, of course, that he didn’t go to all this trouble for angels. It was for people like us, children of Abraham. That’s why he had to enter into every detail of human life. Then, when he came before God as high priest to get rid of the people’s sins, he would have already experienced it all himself—all the pain, all the testing—and would be able to help where help was needed.
John 13:3 - Jesus knew that the Father had put him in complete charge of everything, that he came from God and was on his way back to God. So he got up from the supper table, set aside his robe, and put on an apron. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, drying them with his apron. When he got to Simon Peter, Peter said, “Master, you wash my feet?”
John 13:7 - Jesus answered, “You don’t understand now what I’m doing, but it will be clear enough to you later.”
John 13:8 - Peter persisted, “You’re not going to wash my feet—ever!” Jesus said, “If I don’t wash you, you can’t be part of what I’m doing.”
John 13:9 - “Master!” said Peter. “Not only my feet, then. Wash my hands! Wash my head!”
John 13:10 - Jesus said, “If you’ve had a bath in the morning, you only need your feet washed now and you’re clean from head to toe. My concern, you understand, is holiness, not hygiene. So now you’re clean. But not every one of you.” (He knew who was betraying him. That’s why he said, “Not every one of you.”) After he had finished washing their feet, he took his robe, put it back on, and went back to his place at the table.
John 13:12 - Then he said, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You address me as ‘Teacher’ and ‘Master,’ and rightly so. That is what I am. So if I, the Master and Teacher, washed your feet, you must now wash each other’s feet. I’ve laid down a pattern for you. What I’ve done, you do. I’m only pointing out the obvious. A servant is not ranked above his master; an employee doesn’t give orders to the employer. If you understand what I’m telling you, act like it—and live a blessed life.
Zechariah 9:9 - “Shout and cheer, Daughter Zion! Raise your voice, Daughter Jerusalem! Your king is coming! a good king who makes all things right, a humble king riding a donkey, a mere colt of a donkey. I’ve had it with war—no more chariots in Ephraim, no more war horses in Jerusalem, no more swords and spears, bows and arrows. He will offer peace to the nations, a peaceful rule worldwide, from the four winds to the seven seas.
Isaiah 42:1 - “Take a good look at my servant. I’m backing him to the hilt. He’s the one I chose, and I couldn’t be more pleased with him. I’ve bathed him with my Spirit, my life. He’ll set everything right among the nations. He won’t call attention to what he does with loud speeches or gaudy parades. He won’t brush aside the bruised and the hurt and he won’t disregard the small and insignificant, but he’ll steadily and firmly set things right. He won’t tire out and quit. He won’t be stopped until he’s finished his work—to set things right on earth. Far-flung ocean islands wait expectantly for his teaching.”
Isaiah 52:13 - “Just watch my servant blossom! Exalted, tall, head and shoulders above the crowd! But he didn’t begin that way. At first everyone was appalled. He didn’t even look human— a ruined face, disfigured past recognition. Nations all over the world will be in awe, taken aback, kings shocked into silence when they see him. For what was unheard of they’ll see with their own eyes, what was unthinkable they’ll have right before them.”
Isaiah 53:2 - The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum. But the fact is, it was our pains he carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed. We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost. We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him.
Isaiah 53:11 - Out of that terrible travail of soul, he’ll see that it’s worth it and be glad he did it. Through what he experienced, my righteous one, my servant, will make many “righteous ones,” as he himself carries the burden of their sins. Therefore I’ll reward him extravagantly— the best of everything, the highest honors— Because he looked death in the face and didn’t flinch, because he embraced the company of the lowest. He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many, he took up the cause of all the black sheep.
Luke 22:27 - “Who would you rather be: the one who eats the dinner or the one who serves the dinner? You’d rather eat and be served, right? But I’ve taken my place among you as the one who serves. And you’ve stuck with me through thick and thin. Now I confer on you the royal authority my Father conferred on me so you can eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and be strengthened as you take up responsibilities among the congregations of God’s people.
Romans 15:3 - That’s exactly what Jesus did. He didn’t make it easy for himself by avoiding people’s troubles, but waded right in and helped out. “I took on the troubles of the troubled,” is the way Scripture puts it. Even if it was written in Scripture long ago, you can be sure it’s written for us. God wants the combination of his steady, constant calling and warm, personal counsel in Scripture to come to characterize us, keeping us alert for whatever he will do next. May our dependably steady and warmly personal God develop maturity in you so that you get along with each other as well as Jesus gets along with us all. Then we’ll be a choir—not our voices only, but our very lives singing in harmony in a stunning anthem to the God and Father of our Master Jesus!
Romans 8:3 - God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
John 1:14 - The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, Generous inside and out, true from start to finish.
Galatians 4:4 - But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law so that he might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law. Thus we have been set free to experience our rightful heritage. You can tell for sure that you are now fully adopted as his own children because God sent the Spirit of his Son into our lives crying out, “Papa! Father!” Doesn’t that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a slave, but a child? And if you are a child, you’re also an heir, with complete access to the inheritance.