Luke 1:72-80 ▼

72 to perform mercy towards our fathers, and to remember his own holy covenant:

73 the oath which he sware to Abraham our father,

74 to give us, that we, secure from fear, rescued from the hands of our enemies, should serve him,

75 in righteousness and holiness before him, all the days of our life.

76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

77 to give the knowledge of salvation to his people, by the remission of their sins,

78 through the bowels of mercy of our God; with which he hath visited us, as the dawn of the morning from on high,

79 to illumine those who sat in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace.

80 And the child grew, and became mighty in spirit, and was in the deserts until the days of his public exhibition to Israel.