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If we are being afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation; if we are being consoled, it is for your consolation, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are also suffering. (v. 6)

I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now everyone of you from your evil way, and amend your doings ...' (v. 15a)

In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem ... (v. 1)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (v. 1)

... or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. (v. 12)

] emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross. (vs. 7-8)

As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. (v. 12)

After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child; and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. (v. 21)

This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began ... (v. 9b)

Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil ... (v. 14)

Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.’ (v. 13)