Acts 2:37

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

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

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

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 this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

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.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand,

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”

The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

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

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.

Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone.

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

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.

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?”

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”