Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a large crown of gold and a garment of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities.

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase.

Thy way

and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John;

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,

Saving

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why are you disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,

The help of my countenance and my God.

For the choir director. A Song. A Psalm.

Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;

For His lovingkindness is great toward us,
And the

truth of the Lord is everlasting.

Praise the Lord!

He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel;
I will also make You a light of the nations
So that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

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

For my eyes have seen Your salvation,

And all

flesh will

see the salvation of God.’”

For the grace of God has appeared,

bringing salvation to all men,

General references

“All the earth will worship You,
And will sing praises to You;
They will sing praises to Your name.”

Selah.

So the

nations will fear the name of the Lord

And all the kings of the earth Your glory.

Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,