Acts 17:3

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

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

that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

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.

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 those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

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

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom.”

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

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

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

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

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.