Of God and Mankind

  Proverbs 2:10-15, 20-22 (AMPC)   “ For skillful  and godly Wisdom shall enter into your heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to you.   11 Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you,   12 To deliver you from the way of evil  and the evil men, from men who speak perverse things  and are liars,   13 Men who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,   14 Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,   15 Who are crooked in their ways, wayward  and devious in their paths.   20 So may you walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the [consistently] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God).   21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the men of integrity, blameless  and complete [in God's sight], shall remain in it;   22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous ...

Isaiah 7:14 (AMPC) “ Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, the young woman who is unmarried  and a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His N ame Immanuel [God with us]. [Isa. 9:6; Jer. 31:22; Mic. 5:3-5; Matt. 1:22, 23.]”   Matthew 1:20-23 (AMPC) “ But as he was thinking this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary [as] your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of (from, out of) the Holy Spirit.   21 She will bear a Son, and you shall call His N ame Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savio u r], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God].   22 All this took place that it might be fulfilled which the Lord had spoken through the prophet,   23 Behold, the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a Son, a...