Acts 11:26

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

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

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

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.”

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.

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

I and the Father are one.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

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

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

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

For there are three who testify:

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.

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

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

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

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

Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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,

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

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.

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

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.

On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

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

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.

They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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;

He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.

As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.

But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.

The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,

Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

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.

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

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.

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

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

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.

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.