Acts 18:28

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

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

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

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.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

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

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

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

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

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.

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

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.”

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

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.’

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.

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

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

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

It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

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

That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

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.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

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

Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner.

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.”

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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;

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

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

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

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

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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,

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

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

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

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

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.

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

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

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.”

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

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

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.

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.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

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.