Acts 16:3

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

“ ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

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.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

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

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.

Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

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

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.

and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

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.

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

When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.

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.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

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.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.

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

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.

They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

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

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.