Most Popular Bible Verses in Acts
-
Chapter
Acts Rank:
Peter said to them, “
They were
And there is salvation in
When
Be on guard for yourselves and for all
Now these were more noble-minded than those in
And they were all
They said, “
So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand
And after He had said these things,
On
They also said, “
Therefore
Therefore having
Now
The first account I
and
“Men of Israel, listen to these words:
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has
Now when they heard this, they were
‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
And your young men shall see visions,
And your old men shall dream dreams;
Now there were at
But
And the
So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord,
Therefore let all the
for
The young men got up and
It happened that while
and after he brought them out, he said, “Sirs,
and when he had found him, he brought him to
Now why do you delay?
Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, “These men are bond-servants of
To
praising God and
And all those who had believed
In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said,
But Peter,
These all with one mind
this Man, delivered over by the
But
It happened that as we were going to
From Miletus he sent to
While Peter was still speaking these words,
As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch *said, “Look! Water!
strengthening the souls of
Now
Now there was a man at
When
because He has fixed
He said to them,
But when they believed Philip
solemnly
And now I
While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting,
So Paul stood in the midst of the
and they all, from smallest to greatest, were giving attention to him, saying, “
They passed through the
When they had entered the city, they went up to
A woman named Lydia, from the city of
When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying
Of Him
I know that after my departure
And they
Now while Paul was waiting for them at
And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
When they heard this, they
Now there elapsed an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
For
As they were speaking to the people, the priests and
and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and
Therefore having been exalted
Now in
“You men who are
Now when
Now about that time
Now as they observed the
But about midnight
And all the Gentiles
having a hope in God, which
So
[
until the day when He
Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to
Then they
let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that
But being
And
Now there was a man named Simon, who formerly was practicing
And when they had prayed, the
Paul came also to
“
and rescued him from all his afflictions, and
Now the apostles and
For I
But the Lord said to him,
But
“For
When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
Now a Jew named
Therefore,
And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great
Moses said, ‘
And Peter responded to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land
Therefore, those
But going on from Perga, they arrived at
This Jesus
They went on stoning Stephen as he
“
And it became known to all who were living in Jerusalem; so that in
Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that
On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city,
For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.”
and
And there appeared to them tongues as of fire
“Brethren,
After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brethren in
And we are
And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, “O
And as they were gazing intently into
that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him,
The statement found approval with the whole
For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy
But Peter said, “By no means,
But Peter said, “I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you:
Then it seemed good to
This is the one who was in
After He had
When he knocked at the door of the gate,
When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
So
but that we write to them that they abstain from
But
But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is
And he ordered the
how I
(Now this man
When they did not find them, they began
And they were giving him attention because he had for a long time astonished them with his
As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and
“
And he said, “Hear me,
And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled
And with many other words he solemnly
And He
Then Peter,
And he reported to us how he had seen the angel
Therefore it is necessary that of the men who have accompanied us all the time that
Being then the children of God, we
Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem,
And so, because he was
nor is He served by human hands,
The word which He sent to the sons of Israel,
But we will
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers
Then Philip
and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also
And as they were crying out and
For while I was passing through and examining the
he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of
and yet
to
The high priest said, “Are these things so?”
but kept declaring both
Then Peter said to her, “Why is it that you have agreed together to
On the second visit
But we believe that we are saved through
Paul, having remained many days longer,
Now there was a disciple at
Now Joseph, a Levite of
And he found a Jew named
And
So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after
When she recognized Peter’s voice,
And when he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of
So the twelve summoned the
But perceiving that one group were
“Now
For it was not David who ascended into
‘
“Sit at My right hand,
For
Now
After there had been much
But this I admit to you, that according to
For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses
The God of this people Israel
When they had arrived and gathered the church together, they began to
And when Paul had
and
But they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.
And
But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man,
What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.
except that
And immediately she
Then
if we are
Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.”
They were also to provide mounts to put Paul on and bring him safely to
Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in
And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.
But
And they stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes, and they
And
And he brought them into his house and set
and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,
And having sent into
and here he
[
But Peter continued knocking; and when they had opened the door, they saw him and were amazed.
and
the
They said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. They kept saying, “It is
but
Then they
Therefore if
and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to
At the same time too, he was hoping that
Even saying these things, with difficulty they restrained the crowds from offering sacrifice to them.
and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there.
And
But there were some of them, men of
They put forward
But none of the rest dared to associate with them; however,
But get up, go downstairs and
Now he was very angry with the people of
and they
Now when day came, there was no small disturbance among the soldiers as to
When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they
The
I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit
And they shall prophesy.
On an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the
And Paul said, “
When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding
And signs on the earth below,
Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.
And
and he took food and was strengthened.Now
From there they were removed to
But after two years had passed, Felix
Also the
And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.
And fixing their gaze on him, all who were sitting in the
For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of
But
Fearing that we might
for we have heard him say that
And while John
Moreover my flesh also will live in hope;
But when they had ordered them to leave the
men who have
for he was a good man, and
When he had landed at
And after he had been set outside,
“But as the
While Peter was reflecting on
Now when they heard of
saying, “
All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, “Is this not he who in Jerusalem
But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the
take them and
But so that it will not spread any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any man
And
being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming
They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and
It was at this time that
“Since we have heard that
but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket.
Also some of the
From there they sailed to
But on the next day,
But when they stretched him out
crying out, “Men of Israel, come to our aid!
They went out of the prison and entered the house of
Peter went down to the men and said, “Behold, I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for which you have come?”
for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating
But during the night
For those who live in Jerusalem, and their
and he was returning and sitting in his
and when they had gone aside, they began talking to one another, saying, “
It was he who took
after
saying, “Give this authority to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
When the centurion heard this, he went to the
But when he was approaching the age of forty,
For in the case of many who had
for the man was more than forty years old on whom this
and
They laid hands on the apostles and
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in
And they laid hands on them and
But while
while You extend Your hand to heal, and
Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple
The crowds with one accord were giving attention to what was said by Philip, as they heard and saw the
You have
“Go, stand and
Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.
But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he
But someone came and reported to them, “The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, “Great is
So he invited them in and gave them lodging.And on the next day he got up and went away with them, and
When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them)
and suddenly
but
saying, “We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside.”
Not only is there danger that this trade of ours fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess
While they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the
And as he heard these words, Ananias
Now when
Then Paul
But Paul said, “
and the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that
But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote,
And when Paul wanted to go into the
to do whatever Your hand and
When he saw that it
And the rulers were gathered together
Against the Lord and against His
After quieting the crowd, the town clerk *said, “Men of
When Peter
But
At this remark,
And when Peter came up to Jerusalem,
When they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which
So, when they had solemnly
But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a single outcry arose from them all as they shouted for about two hours, “Great is
Cornelius said, “
But Simon answered and said, “
And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them
But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even when he had no child,
And he said, “Well, how could I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian.
They passed through
On
and he *said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your
Then you are not
But
‘And whatever nation to which they will be in bondage I Myself will judge,’ said God, ‘and
When he saw
When
As Paul was about to be brought into
And
And
And they spoke the word of
But
Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken nothing.
Then all the city was provoked, and
When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on
And likewise,
and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it
and said to him, ‘
“Therefore we have sent
Some of the crowd
But
But the next day, leaving
And the angel said to him, “Gird yourself and
The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed
But the one who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, ‘
You see and hear that not only in
When he got to
“When this man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be slain by them,
“And
“
Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from
But Peter began speaking
Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you
At once he
When he had said these things, he
After they had spent time there, they were sent away from the brethren
Then
And behold, at that moment three men appeared at the house in which we were staying, having been sent to me from
But if you want anything beyond this, it shall be settled in the
But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down
But while Gallio was
That is why I came without even raising any objection when I was sent for. So I ask for what reason you have sent for me.”
When they reached Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in
So he got up and went; and
And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
And he was with them,
And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were
And casting off
that God has fulfilled this promise
Then
So, since these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and to do nothing rash.
When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by
Saul got up from the ground, and
When he had gone through those districts and had given them much exhortation, he came to Greece.
The
and
But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing
But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘
When they had
But when
But also some of the Jewish
The soldiers’ plan was to
The
When it was decided that
When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a
But among the crowd
When he had read it, he asked from what
Now when they heard this, they were
At
and he said, “Behold, I see the
Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and
but put to death the
And he was talking and arguing with the
And he
But you disowned
After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for
Now after these things were finished, Paul purposed in the
On the next day we left and came to
And he went out and continued to follow, and he did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing
About
One of them named
So they went on their way from the presence of the
After they had stopped speaking,
that you abstain from
Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this:
“
And as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
So He does not open His mouth.
“For it is written in the book of Psalms,
‘
And let no one dwell in it’;
For David says of Him,
‘
For He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.
And I will rebuild the
And I will rebuild its ruins,
And I will restore it,
When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, there came the voice of the Lord:
About that time there occurred no small disturbance concerning
and asked for
And he stayed two full years
After
And
Now as Peter was traveling through all those regions, he came down also to
Moses was educated in all
For
But a Pharisee named
So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God.
When he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to four
For some time ago Theudas rose up,
Therefore He also says in another Psalm, ‘
And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” And He said,
But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?
Now while they were passing through the cities, they were delivering
and there they continued to
But as he was discussing
But some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including both
Therefore it is
Paul, looking intently at
So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Now therefore why do you
who
‘
And the peoples devise futile things?
and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus
For it seems absurd to me in sending a prisoner, not to indicate also the charges against him.”
Agrippa replied to Paul, “
When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voice, saying in the
When these had come to
and that He may send Jesus, the
However,
As for the fact that He
Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these men remain in the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved.”
And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before
So, being
After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of
a devout man and
On the next day, their
And he said to them, “You yourselves know how
After they had
For we have found this man a real pest and a fellow who stirs up dissension among all the Jews throughout
But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the
When they had spoken the word in
Then they
Now, behold,
He said to them, “
You yourselves know that
But
Now when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and of the
and for many days
But Peter
And
When they had
Therefore they spent a long time there
But
But when they resisted and blasphemed, he
For He had
And there he spent three months, and when
When
And having spent some time there, he left and passed successively through the
When they had read it, they rejoiced because of its
So he was reasoning
And when they did not agree with one another, they began leaving after Paul had spoken one parting word, “The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers,
But
and they have been told about you, that you are
he said, “I will give you a hearing after your
And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it
and
And as I began to speak,
And the disciples were continually
Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
But when
And when they heard it they began
and
And when Paul and Barnabas had
But
Now this man had four virgin daughters who were
Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!”
But the things which
and he *saw
Paul wanted this man to
And they
But
Festus then, having arrived in
And they
For Paul had decided to sail past
When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at
When we entered Rome, Paul was
And the moon into blood,
Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come.
serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me
who was with the
When they heard this, they were
So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and
these he gathered together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity
And there was a young man named
For I am accomplishing a work in your days,
A work which you will never believe, though someone should describe it to you.’”
“And now, brethren, I know that you acted
you who received the law as
And he entered
And on
Then the
When
And on the basis of faith
When
But Saul, who was also known as Paul,
And immediately
Now
But Paul chose
When they had brought them, they stood them
Paul stood up, and
And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been
And it happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed afflicted with recurrent fever and dysentery; and Paul went in to see him and after he had
But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out
This took place for
And when we had
And when she and
And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “
But when her masters saw that their hope of
they became aware of it and fled to the cities of
Now dispatch some men to
It is you who are
As we were staying there for some days, a prophet named
But Elymas the
Therefore, being
They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
And the following day Paul went in with us to
and after they came to
For they had previously seen
to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by
and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you
And now, behold, bound by the
Again a voice came to him a second time, “
For
But
And when
They came to
you yourselves know the thing which took place throughout all Judea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed.
“So then,
All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were
For these men are not drunk, as you suppose,
“It happened when I
And when they had summoned them, they
and I found him to be accused over
and after he had explained everything to them, he sent them to
Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of
This man had been instructed in
And the Lord said to Paul in the night by
At the end of three months we set sail on
But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could
Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that,
And there occurred such a sharp disagreement that they separated from one another, and Barnabas took
So putting out to sea from
And in the proportion that any of
Therefore those who were about to
And embarking in an Adramyttian ship, which was about to sail to the regions along the coast of
As
And He
and from there to
and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away
The high priest
And God,
And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
And when they had come to him, he said to them,“You yourselves know,
For
saying,
‘
“
And
But when they heard this, they were
But some of
They