Acts 15:12

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

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.”

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

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!

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

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

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.

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

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

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

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.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

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

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

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

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

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,

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!” All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.

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.

Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

And not a hair of your head will perish.

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

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

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

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

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,

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

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

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

“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.

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.

When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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

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.

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.

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.

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.

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 those days were over, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.

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.

Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

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?

When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.

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.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

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 thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.

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.

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

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

God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

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

What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

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.

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;

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

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

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’