Acts 1:17

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

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.

that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

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.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

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,

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

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

to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

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

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”

Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.

Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.

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

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Then he came into a house.

Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.

While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

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.

Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”