Acts 14:25

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

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

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

But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.

He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.

The farmer sows the word.

They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

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?

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?

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.

Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the waist.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.

Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,

All the city was gathered together at the door.

They found him and told him, “Everyone is looking for you.”

Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”

Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”

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.”

They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.

But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

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.

But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

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

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

said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.

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.

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

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.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.

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

But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

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

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

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 what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

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;

whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

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.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

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;

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,

of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

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

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

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”

On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.