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make his paths straight.’”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now John himself had a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father'; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Jesus arrived from Galilee at the Jordan coming to John, to be baptized by him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But Jesus answering said to him, "Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he permitted Him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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