Acts 18:26

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

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

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

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

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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?

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

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

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’

Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

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.”

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.”

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

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

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”

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.

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

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

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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,

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.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

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

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

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,

“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

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.

He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

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.

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need for you.”

The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.

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,

Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.