Acts 17:12

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

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

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

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

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

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

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ”

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:

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

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

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

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

But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

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.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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;

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;

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

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

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

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.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

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?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

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.

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.