1 Timothy 2:7

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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.

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

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

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

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

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,

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.

When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

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.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

“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.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

I and the Father are one.”

Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Pray without ceasing.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.

I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

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.

But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.