Acts 18:11

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

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?

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

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

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

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 some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

The Lord’s word was spread abroad throughout all the region.

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

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

You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

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

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

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

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned 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.

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.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

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

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

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

God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

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

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

When he had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

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

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

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.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

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

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

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

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

Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”