Acts 14:23

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.

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.

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

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

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.”

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

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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 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.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

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

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.

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.’

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

You are witnesses of these things.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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.

Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

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

“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

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

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

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.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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,

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.

The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

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.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.

David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

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.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

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

They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

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.

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.