American Standard Version of 1901
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For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you.
But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
He showeth his word unto Jacob,His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel.
For I could {Or, pray}wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the {Or, flesh; he who is over all, God, be blessed for ever.}flesh, who is over all, God blessed {Greek: unto the ages.}for ever. Amen.
He came unto {Greek: his own things}his own, and they that were his own received him not.
John answered them, saying, I baptize {Or, with}in water: in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not,
Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
And hath raised up a horn of salvation for usIn the house of his servant David
Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
To give knowledge of salvation unto his peopleIn the remission of their sins,
Brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us is the word of this salvation sent forth.
For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, {Isaiah 49:6}I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles,That thou shouldest be for salvation unto the uttermost part of the earth.
For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.