John 3:30

KJV1611 – Modern English

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: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
  • Ps 72:17-19 : 17 His name shall endure forever; his name shall continue as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in him; all nations shall call him blessed. 18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. 19 And blessed be his glorious name forever, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
  • Isa 9:7 : 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
  • Heb 3:2-6 : 2 Who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. 3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone; but He who built all things is God. 5 And Moses truly was faithful in all His house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken later; 6 But Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm until the end.
  • Rev 11:15 : 15 And the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.
  • Dan 2:44-45 : 44 And in the days of these kings, the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45 For as much as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.
  • Matt 13:31-33 : 31 He told them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which 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 still another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.
  • Acts 13:36-37 : 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption: 37 But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
  • 2 Cor 3:7-9 : 7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadily behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministry of the Spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation is glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness exceed in glory. 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.
  • Isa 53:2-3 : 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground: he has no form or beauty; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
  • Isa 53:12 : 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Dan 2:34-35 : 34 You watched until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no trace of them was found: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

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