1 Corinthians 14:23

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.

The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.

You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,

Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.

There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’ ”

Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.

My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’

As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”

“ ‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.

Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.