John 3:30

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He must increase, but I must decrease.

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  • Col 1:18 : 18 And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy.
  • Ps 72:17-19 : 17 May his name endure forever; as long as the sun shines, may his name be continued. All nations will be blessed through him, and they will call him blessed. 18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds. 19 Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.
  • Isa 9:7 : 7 The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will fall upon Israel.
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each.
  • Heb 3:2-6 : 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house. 3 For Jesus has been found worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. 5 Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to what would be spoken later. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.
  • Rev 11:15 : 15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever."
  • Dan 2:44-45 : 44 In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will establish a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will stand forever. 45 This is because you saw a stone cut out from a mountain without human hands, and it crushed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold. The great God has made known to the king what will happen in the future. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is trustworthy.
  • Matt 13:31-33 : 31 He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.' 32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches. 33 He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about fifty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.'
  • Acts 13:36-37 : 36 For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, fell asleep, was buried with his ancestors, and saw decay. 37 But He whom God raised did not see decay.
  • 2 Cor 3:7-9 : 7 If the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not look intently at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was passing away, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness far exceeds it in glory. 10 Indeed, what once had glory now has no glory at all because of the surpassing glory. 11 For if what was passing away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of what remains!
  • Isa 53:2-3 : 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or majesty to attract us to him, and no appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
  • Isa 53:12 : 12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death and was numbered with the transgressors. He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Dan 2:34-35 : 34 While you were watching, a stone was cut out, not by human hands. It struck the statue on its iron and clay feet and broke them into pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were all crushed together and became like chaff from a summer threshing floor. The wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

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