Acts 28:23

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

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

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

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

“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.

Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

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.”

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

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.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

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 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.

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.

We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

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.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.

you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.

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

Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

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

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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;

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

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

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

They taught in Judah, having the book of Yahweh’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

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.

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

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

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

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

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

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

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.

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

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

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.”

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior: