Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

Everything exposed by the light is made clear,

If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

Let the unrighteous go on in unrighteousness; let the filthy go on being made filthy; let the righteous go on in righteousness; and let the holy go on being made holy.”

Therefore we do not give up. Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

While you have the light, believe in the light so that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said this, then went away and hid from them.

Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; Isaac did the same with Jacob, and Jacob with the 12 patriarchs.

When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

Then, being sent off, they went down to Antioch, and after gathering the assembly, they delivered the letter.

Then Paul chose Silas and departed, after being commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers.

So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, being built up and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, and it increased in numbers.

He saw heaven opened and an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the earth.

“Can anyone withhold water and prevent these people from being baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

Being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they came down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

In all the synagogues I often tried to make them blaspheme by punishing them. I even pursued them to foreign cities since I was greatly enraged at them.

affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;

as unknown yet recognized;
as dying and look—we live;
as being disciplined yet not killed;

For he accepted our urging and, being very diligent, went out to you by his own choice.

I know both how to have a little, and I know how to have a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content—whether well fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need.

Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him: We ask you, brothers,

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all,
the righteous for the unrighteous,
that He might bring you to God,
after being put to death in the fleshly realm
but made alive in the spiritual realm.

not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after being encircled by the Israelites for seven days.

quenched the raging of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength after being weak, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.

Nicodemus—the one who came to Him previously, being one of them—said to them,

If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”

If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man—by what means he was healed—

Many signs and wonders were being done among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they would all meet in Solomon’s Colonnade.

In those days, as the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

Then fear came over everyone, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles.

praising God and having favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to them those who were being saved.

Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.

and being of the same occupation, stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught the things about Jesus accurately, although he knew only John’s baptism.

As they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look, there’s water! What would keep me from being baptized?”

“I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a visionary state, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.

So Peter was kept in prison, but prayer was being made earnestly to God for him by the church.

Therefore, let it be known to you, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is being proclaimed to you,

the promise our 12 tribes hope to attain as they earnestly serve Him night and day. King Agrippa, I am being accused by the Jews because of this hope.

Because we were being severely battered by the storm, they began to jettison the cargo the next day.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith is being reported in all the world.

know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,

In fact, we run a risk of being charged with rioting for what happened today, since there is no justification that we can give as a reason for this disorderly gathering.”

He continued, “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and educated according to the strict view of our patriarchal law. Being zealous for God, just as all of you are today,

And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing by and approving, and I guarded the clothes of those who killed him.’

The next day, since he wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and instructed the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to convene. Then he brought Paul down and placed him before them.

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or about this one statement I cried out while standing among them, ‘Today I am being judged before you concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.

For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

However, not everyone has this knowledge. In fact, some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food offered to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law.