Acts 13:14

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.”

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

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

On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.

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

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ”

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

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

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.

When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

There they preached the Good News.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

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

He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

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

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

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

As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?” One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

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.

Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

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.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.