Matthew 1:20-22

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²⁰But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the Child who has been ^[a]conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. ²¹She will give birth to a Son, and you shall name Him Jesus (The Lord is salvation), for He will ^[b]save His people from their sins.” ²²All this happened in order to fulfill what the Lord had spoken through the ^[c]prophet [Isaiah]:

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Footnotes

Matthew 1:20 Lit begotten.
Matthew 1:21 Those who, by personal faith, accept Him as Savior are saved from the penalty of sin and reconciled with the Father.
Matthew 1:22 The prophets in the Bible always have the ability to foretell the future as revealed to them by God. Scripture provides stringent criteria for testing a prophet’s ability to foretell future events (Deut 18:22).