Acts 15:32

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

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.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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

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

You are witnesses of these things.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

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

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

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.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

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

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

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

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

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.

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.

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.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

“As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

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

He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.

The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Don’t despise prophecies.

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

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

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.

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.