Acts 19:8

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

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.

He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship;

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

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

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.

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

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

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

But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

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

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 it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in bronze. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.

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.”

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ”

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

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

Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

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.

But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

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.

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.

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

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;

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

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.

But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

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

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

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

Brothers, pray for us.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

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,

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

(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.

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.

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.

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

I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

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

When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”

preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.

But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

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.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

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

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

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.

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,

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.

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.