Luke 2:1-20 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration…

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Luke 1:46-55 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord,     and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor…

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Isaiah 40:1-5 Comfort, O comfort my people,     says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,     and cry to her that she has served her term,…

Isaiah 64:1-9 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition O that you would tear open the heavens and come down,     so that the mountains would quake at your presence— as when…