“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord” (I Corinthians 15:58).

“And again, when He bringeth in the first begotten into the world, He saith, And let all the angels of God worship Him” (Hebrews 1:6).

“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined” (Isaiah 9:2).

“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1).

These opening words of the New Testament identify this “book of the generation (literally ‘genesis’) of Jesus Christ” as telling of the wonderful fulfillment of the promise to both Abraham and David of a very special Son.

“Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of thy hands” (Hebrews 2:7).