And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

Moreover, when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Verily, I say to you, they have their reward.

Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples fast not?

And she was a widow of about eighty four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Defraud ye not one the other, except with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you for your incontinence.

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

The holy

While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee.

Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia, and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia;

But all these worketh that one and the same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

Separate

And he said to me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence to the Gentiles.

And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God,

And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things?

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me towards the Gentiles:)

And the things that thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

The work

But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel.

And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been commended to the grace of God, for the work which they fulfilled.

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.

After these things, the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city, and place, whither he himself would come.

Of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of his power.

For which I am ordained a preacher and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

To which I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

And no man taketh this honor to himself, but he that is called by God, as was Aaron:

General references

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:

Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join thyself to this chariot.