and after he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. Now for a whole year their meeting with the church lasted, and they taught large numbers of people. It was at Antioch too that the disciples first came to be known as "Christians."

Now he went to Derbe and Lystra too. At Lystra there was a disciple named Timothy, whose mother was a Christian Jewess, but his father was a Greek.

Then Agrippa answered Paul, "In brief you are trying to persuade me and make a Christian of me!"

I am telling the truth as a Christian man. I am telling no lie, because my conscience enlightened by the Holy Spirit is bearing me witness to this fact,

Make it your practice to receive into full Christian fellowship people who are overscrupulous, but not to criticize their views.

Therefore, practice receiving one another into full Christian fellowship, just as Christ has so received you to Himself.

So, as a Christian, I am proud of the things that I have done for God.

that you may give her a Christian welcome in a manner becoming God's people, and give her whatever help she needs from you, for she herself has given protection to many, including myself.

Remember me to Andronicus and Junias, my fellow-country-men, who also served in prison with me; they are held in high esteem among the apostles, and became Christians before I did.

Remember me to Ampliatus, my dear Christian friend.

Remember me to Apelles, that most venerated Christian. Remember me to the members of Aristobulus' family.

Remember me to Herodion, my fellow-countryman. Remember me to the Christian members of Narcissus' family.

Remember me to Rufus, that choicest Christian, and to his mother, who has been a mother to me too.

I, Tertius, who write this letter, wish to be remembered to you as a fellow-Christian.

So I myself, brothers, could not deal with you as spiritual persons, but as creatures of human clay, as merely baby Christians.

For though you have ten thousand teachers in the Christian life, you certainly could not have many fathers. For it was I myself who became your father through your union with Christ Jesus, which resulted from my telling you the good news.

Do you not know that we Christians are to sit in judgment on angels, to say nothing of the ordinary cases of life?

To the rest of the people I myself would say -- though the Lord Himself has said nothing about it -- if a Christian has a wife that is not a believer and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her;

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated by union with his wife and the unbelieving wife by union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but in this way they are consecrated.

But if the unbelieving consort actually leaves, let the separation stand. In such cases the Christian husband or wife is not morally bound; God has called us to live in peace.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases, except that he must be a Christian.

It cannot be that we have no right to take a Christian wife about with us, can it, as well as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers, and Cephas?

If for this life only we Christians have set our hopes on Christ, we are the most pitiable people in the world.

The churches of Asia wish to be remembered to you. Aquila and Prisca, with the church that meets at their house, send you their cordial Christian greetings.

But I was personally unknown to the Christian churches in Judea;

For before the coming of certain people from James, he was in the habit of eating with heathen Christians, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof from them, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

The rest of the Jewish Christians, too, joined him in this pretense so that even Barnabas was influenced to join them in their pretense.

and that most of the Christian brothers have grown confident enough, because of my imprisonment, to dare to tell God's message without being afraid.

So give him a hearty Christian welcome and hold in honor men like him,

I was made very happy as a Christian to have your interest in my welfare revived again after so long; because you have always had the interest but not the opportunity to show it.

You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, for this is your Christian duty.

Children, practice obedience to your parents in everything, for this is acceptable in Christians.

If a Christian woman has widowed relatives, she should help them, and let the church be free from the burden, so that it can help the widows who are really dependent.

Those who have Christian masters must not pay them less respect because they are brothers; they must serve them all the better, because those who get the benefit of their service are believers and so are dear to them. These are the things that you must continue to teach and urge them to do.

All who are with me wish to be remembered to you. Remember me to all who love me as Christians. Spiritual blessing be with you all.

not as a slave any longer but more than a slave, a dearly loved brother, especially to me and much more to you, both as a servant and as a Christian.

Therefore, my Christian brothers, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Messenger and High Priest whom we profess to follow,

For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have shown His name in the service you have rendered for your fellow-Christians, and still are doing.

We Christians have an altar at which the ministers of the Jewish tent of worship have no right to eat.

Remember us to all your leaders and to all the Christians. The Christians from Italy wish to be remembered to you.

Let the poor brother of lowly station rejoice in his exalted station as a Christian,

and keep your conscience clear, so that those who bitterly abuse your excellent conduct as Christians may be ashamed of slandering you.

but if anyone suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed of it, but should keep on praising God for bearing this name.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who from this time die as Christians.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "let them rest from their toils, for the things they have done are going with them."