Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon's Portico.

What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us (and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

In breaking

On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people, and because he intended to leave the next day, he extended his message until midnight.

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord's Supper.

And in prayers

All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God courageously.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,