Job 32:18

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

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

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

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.”

Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?

For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.

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.

The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

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

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

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?”

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

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

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

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.

For, behold, I have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

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

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

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 as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.