that which we have seen and listened to we now announce to you also, in order that you also may have fellowship in it with us, and this fellowship with us is fellowship with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

In breaking

On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul, who was going away the next morning, was preaching to them, and prolonged his discourse till midnight.

The cup of blessing, which we bless, does it not mean a joint-participation in the blood of Christ? The loaf of bread which we break, does it not mean a joint-participation in the body of Christ?

When, however, you meet in one place, there is no eating the Supper of the Lord;

And in prayers

All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.

When they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were, one and all, filled with the Holy Spirit, and proceeded to tell God's Message with boldness.

But, as for us, we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the delivery of the Message."

full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer.

Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,

Be earnest and unwearied in prayer, being on the alert in it and in your giving of thanks.

not neglecting--as some habitually do--to meet together, but encouraging one another, and doing this all the more since you can see the day of Christ approaching.

But you, my dearly-loved friends, building yourselves up on the basis of your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,