Acts 2:42

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Pray without ceasing.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Always rejoice.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

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

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

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

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

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.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

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

Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.

I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

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.

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

When he had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

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:

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

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

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.