Acts 11:23

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

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

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

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.

“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.”

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

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

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

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

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

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

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

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

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.

From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

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.

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

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,

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to 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.

that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

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.

When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

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

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.