Acts 14:27

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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?

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

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

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

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

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

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,

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

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

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.

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

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

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

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

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

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

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.

sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.

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

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.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

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

Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.

Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,

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.

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

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.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

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?

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;