Bible verses about "christmas" | Mace

⁴⁶ Then Mary said, "my soul doth magnify the Lord, ⁴⁷ and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my saviour,

³⁸ give and you shall receive: they shall pour into your lap good measure, well pressed, heap'd up, and running over. for in the measure you deal with others, you shall be dealt with yourselves.

¹¹ and entring into the house, they saw the infant with Mary his mother, and prostrating themselves, they worshipped him: then opening their treasures, they presented him with gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

¹⁴ The Logos became incarnate, and had his tabernacle among us, being full of grace and truth; and we contemplated his glory, such glory as the Monogenes derived from the father.

³⁵ my constant example has shown you that the disabled should be assisted by your labours, remembring the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, "it is a greater happiness to give than to receive."

¹⁸ Now the manner of Christ's birth was this: his mother Mary being promised in marriage to Joseph, before they came together, she became pregnant by the holy Spirit. ¹⁹ but Joseph her husband, being a good-natur'd man, and unwilling to expose her to publick shame, he designed to put her away privately. ²⁰ but while he was revolving this in his mind, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, the off-spring of David, don't make any difficulty of taking Mary for thy wife: for her pregnancy is from the holy Spirit. ²¹ and she shall be deliver'd of a son, to whom you shall give the name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. ²² now by these events, that divine prediction of the Prophet had its full accomplishment, when he said, "Behold, ²³ a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel," that is to say, God our Saviour. ²⁴ Then Joseph being awak'd out of sleep, did as the angel of the Lord directed, and took his wife home, ²⁵ but did not cohabit with her as a wife, before she had-brought forth her first-born son; whom he named JESUS.

¹⁶ for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life.