Acts 15:36

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

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.

He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Be diligent to come to me soon,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a container of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’ ” She answered, “It is well.”

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?

Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”

As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”

She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

There they preached the Good News.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

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

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

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!”

These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.

Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

He said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departed from him a little way.

The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.

But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

{14.24} To Him now being able you to strengthen according to the gospel of mine and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery in times of the ages kept secret,

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.

Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.