Mark 16:20

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

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

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

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.

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

Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.

Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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.

Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

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

He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.

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.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise Yah!

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.

It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.

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

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out, and serve me in this place.’

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.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

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

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

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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.

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

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,

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

who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the elders fell down and worshiped.

Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.

‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

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.

even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so. May Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh’s house, and all those who are captives, from Babylon to this place.

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.

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.”

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.”

By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”

Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

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.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

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

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

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,

He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

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

and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

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;

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

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

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

Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”

The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by Yahweh’s word.

He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and 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 will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

They departed and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News and healing everywhere.

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

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

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.”

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,

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?

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

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.