Acts 10:27

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

Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

“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.

Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.

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.

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

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.”

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

For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.

On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.

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

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,

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

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

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.

They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.

Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’

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.

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.

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

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

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

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

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

For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

Brothers, pray for us.

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

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.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

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,