Acts 7:25

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

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

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift 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,

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”

Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

They stood in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.

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.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them.

And not a hair of your head will perish.

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

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

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

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

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.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’

(for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”

which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.

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

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’ ”

They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

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.

When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.

When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

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,

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.