Acts 11:27

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

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.

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

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

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

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.

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.

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.

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

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

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

“Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”

You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.

Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

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.

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,

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

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;

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

But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

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

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.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

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?

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.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

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

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,