Acts 22:21

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

and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace,

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

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

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,

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But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.

They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

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.”

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

“When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,

Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

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

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

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,

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

For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

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

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

All flesh will see God’s salvation.’ ”

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’

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

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

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.

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.

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.