Acts 20:11

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

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.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”

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 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.

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

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

(Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place opposite the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)

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.”

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

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

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

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.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.”

So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.

By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

“My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

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

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

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.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

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

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

“Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today.

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

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.”

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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

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.

For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

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.

When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.

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

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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

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.

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?

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.

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?

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

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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;

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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

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.

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

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

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

He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.