Acts 18:21

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

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

Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

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.

“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

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

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

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.

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

“You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.

When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

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,

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

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

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.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

Today you go out in the month Abib.

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”

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.”

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

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

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.”

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

This will we do, if God permits.

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

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.”

He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”

But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.