Acts 3:26

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

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

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

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.”

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.

With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

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.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

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

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

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.”

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

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

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

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

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.

When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

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.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

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.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

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.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.

Salvation belongs to Yahweh. May your blessing be on your people.

For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

But God raised him from the dead,

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

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,

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

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 indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.