Acts 1:3

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

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.”

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

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,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

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

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”

You are witnesses of these things.

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

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;

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.

Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

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

After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.

See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.

This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.