Acts 11:21

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

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

Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.

So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

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

Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”

Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.”

They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their borders.

They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house.

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.

Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.

‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out, and serve me in this place.’

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.

and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

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.”

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

“This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”

But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, Yahweh’s hand came on him.

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.

I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

“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 many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.