Acts 9:13

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

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:

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

They answered them, and said, “He is. Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place.

Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

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

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”

Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”

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

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

All the saints greet you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

Yahweh’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.

He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.

Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.

Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.