Luke 2:25

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Luke 2:23–27 · Berean Standard Bible

23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),

24 and to offer the sacrifice specified in the Law of the Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

26 The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

27 Led by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for Him what was customary under the Law,

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Job 1:8

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

Daniel 6:22

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Daniel 6:23

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Micah 6:8

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Numbers 11:29

But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

2 Peter 1:21

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