Acts 4:9

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?

I will be yet more vile than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But the maids of whom you have spoken will honor me.”

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

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

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the man touched Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her immediately, and she served them.

Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”

Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.

He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has come to him?” He said, “From childhood.

But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped.

He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—and he touched his ear, and healed him.

A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”

For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?

Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

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!”

There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

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!”

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

So they glorified God in me.

that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.