[Relocated to before vs 34] Now there was but one heart and soul among the multitude of the believers; not one of them considered anything his personal property, they shared all they had with one another.

Now brothers, goodbye; mend your ways, listen to what I have told you, live in harmony, keep the peace; then the God of love and peace will be with you.

So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,

One way

Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

by the fresh, living way which he has inaugurated for us through the veil (that is, through his flesh),

They may

Now, all over Judaea, Galilee, and Samaria, the church enjoyed peace; it was consolidated, inspired by reverence for the Lord and by its invocation of the holy Spirit, and so increased in numbers.

For the

For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

has been fulfilled by God for us their children, when he raised Jesus. As it is written in the second psalm, thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the rest of the lump; if the root is consecrated, so are the branches.

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated in the person of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated in the person of the Christian brother she has married; otherwise, of course, your children would be unholy instead of being consecrated to God.

General references

in holiness and uprightness all our days within his presence.