and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church, and taught many people. And it was in Antioch that the disciples first received the name of "Christians."

Agrippa answered, "In short, you are doing your best to persuade me to become a Christian."

I beg you to give her a Christian welcome, as the saints should; and to assist her in any matter in which she may have need of you. For she herself has been made an overseer to many people, including myself.

and Andronicus and Junia, my kinsfolk and fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, and who became Christians before I did.

I know a Christian man who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body, I know not. God knows), was caught up??his man of whom I speak??ven into the third heaven.

For until certain men came from James he used to eat with the Gentile Christians, but when they came, he began to draw back and to separate himself, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

And the rest of the Jewish Christians also dissimulated with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting for Christians.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.

Those whose masters are Christian believers must not treat them with disrespect, because they are brothers; nay, rather slave for them the better because those who get the benefit of their services are believing and beloved. Continue to teach and preach this.

You already know that all the Christians in Roman Asia forsook me, among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a brother beloved; especially dear to me, but how much more to you, both as a man and a fellow Christian.

For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing.

We Christians have an altar from which those have no right to eat who minister in the Tabernacle.

See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed.

But if any man is suffering as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him ever glorify God in this Name.