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But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, for that is what I was sent to do."
and they did not for a single day stop teaching and preaching in the Temple and in private houses the good news of Jesus, the Christ.
But when they believed Philip's message of the good news of the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, men and women alike accepted baptism.
There were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them, however, who when they reached Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, and told them the good news about the Lord Jesus.
And how are men to preach unless they are sent to do it? As the Scripture says, "How welcome is the coming of those who bring good news!"
in making me a minister of Christ Jesus among the heathen, to act as a priest of God's good news, to see that the heathen are an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the holy Spirit.
After a long discussion, Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose that of you all I should be the one from whose lips the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news??ut not with fine language, or the cross of Christ might seem an empty thing.
As far as preaching the good news is concerned, that is nothing for me to boast of, for I cannot help doing it. For I am ruined if I do not preach.
Now I want to remind you, brothers, of the form in which I presented to you the good news I brought, which you accepted and have stood by, and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.
I do not indulge in extravagant boasts over work done by others, but I do hope that as your faith increases, my influence may be immensely enlarged through you, and I may preach the gospel in the lands beyond you without having to boast over work already done in another's field.
He also directed us to announce to the people and bear solemn testimony that he is the one whom God has appointed to be the judge of the living and the dead. It is of him that all the prophets bear witness that everyone that believes in him will have his sins forgiven in his name."
When the Helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father??hat Spirit of Truth that comes from the Father??e will bear testimony to me, and you must bear testimony too, because you have been with me from the first.
but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."
He is Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and to whose resurrection we are all witnesses. So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear.
Paul went to it as he was accustomed to do, and for three Sabbaths he discussed the Scriptures with them, explaining them and showing that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. "Jesus," he said, "of whom I am telling you, is the Christ!"
It is what existed from the beginning, that we announce; what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, and touched with our hands; it is the very message of life??2 for life has been revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and announce to you that eternal life that was with the Father and has been revealed to us??3 it is what we have seen and heard that we announce to you also, so that you may share our fellowship, for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,
For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. But how are they to call upon him if they have not believed in him? And how are they to believe him if they have never heard him? And how are they to hear unless someone preaches to them?
After John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news from God, saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."
You must understand therefore, my brothers, that through him the forgiveness of your sins is announced to you, and that through union with him everyone who believes is cleared of every charge of which the Law of Moses could not clear you.
He led them out of the jail and said to them, "Gentlemen, what must I do to be saved?" "Believe in the Lord Jesus," they said, "and you and your household will be saved!" Then they told God's message to him and to all the members of his household.read more.
And right then in the night, he took them and washed their wounds, and he and all his household were baptized immediately. Then he took them up to his house and offered them food, and he and all his household were very happy over their new faith in God.
"You are in a hurry to persuade me and make a Christian of me!" Agrippa said to Paul.
through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen,
But whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
It is with this knowledge of what the fear of the Lord means that I appeal to men. My true character is perfectly plain to God, and I hope to your consciences too.
Being sent out in this way by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus. When they reached Salamis, they proclaimed God's message in the Jewish synagogues. They had John with them as their assistant.
Then they crossed Pisidia and entered Pamphylia. They told their message in Perga, then went on to Attalia,
There Paul had a vision one night; a Macedonian was standing appealing to him and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." As soon as he had this vision, we made efforts to get on to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to tell them the good news.
After this the Master appointed seventy-two others, and sent them on before him, two by two, to every town or place to which he intended to come.
And he called the Twelve to him and sent them off two by two, giving them power over the foul spirits.
So Peter invited them in and entertained them. The next day he started off with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa,
At Iconium in the same way, they went to the Jewish synagogue and spoke with such power that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.
Thus they crossed Phrygia and Galatia. The holy Spirit prevented them from delivering the message in Asia,
Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off to the coast, while Silas and Timothy stayed behind. The men who went with Paul took him all the way to Athens, and came back with instructions for Silas and Timothy to rejoin him as soon as possible.
over your co-operation in the good news from the day you first received it until now.
But you must always be composed; do not shrink from hardship; do your work as a missionary, and your whole duty as a minister.
One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, "Do not be afraid! Go on speaking and do not give up, for I am with you, and no one shall attack you or injure you, for I have many people in this city." So he settled there for a year and a half, and taught them God's message.
So he stayed for two full years in rented lodgings of his own, and welcomed everybody who came to see him, preaching the Kingdom of God to them and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ openly and unhindered.
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, preaching, and teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, that was given you with predictions of your work, when the elders laid their hands upon you.
preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.
For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.
For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.
For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it. God has thought us fit to be intrusted with the good news, and so we tell it, making no effort to please men, but to please God, who tests our hearts. We never used flattery, as you know, or found pretexts for making money, as God is our witness.
That was the kind of affection we had for you, which made us ready to share with you not only God's good news but our own lives too, because you were so dear to us. You remember, brothers, how we toiled and labored. We worked night and day, when we preached the good news to you, in order not to be a burden to any of you.
I have never coveted anyone's gold or silver or clothes. You know well enough that these hands of mine provided for my needs and my companions.
we have worked with our hands for a living. When people abuse us, we bless them, when they persecute us, we put up with it,
Or is it only Barnabas and I that have no right to give up working for a living?
If they are Christian workers?? am talking like a madman!?? am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death. Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews. I have been beaten three times by the Romans, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked three times, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;read more.
with my frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from the heathen, danger in the city, danger in the desert, danger at sea, danger from false brothers, through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold. And besides everything else, the thing that burdens me every day is my anxiety about all the churches. Who is weak without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation?
except that in every town I visit, the holy Spirit warns me that imprisonment and persecution are awaiting me. But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.
Then the colonel came up and seized him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains, and then inquired who he was and what he had been doing.
and for me, that when I open my lips I may be given a message, so that I may boldly make known the secret of the good news, for the sake of which I am an envoy, and in prison. Pray that, when I tell it, I may have the courage to speak as I ought.
They were convinced by him, and they called the apostles in and had them flogged, and warned them not to speak about the name of Jesus, and then let them go.
The crowd also joined in the attack on them, and the magistrates had them stripped and beaten. After beating them severely, they put them in jail, and gave the jailer orders to keep close watch of them.
and dragged him out of the city and stoned him, the witnesses throwing down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.
and spoke boldly for the Lord's cause, talking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews. But they tried to kill him.
The whole city was thrown into confusion, and the people hurried together, and seized Paul and dragged him outside of the Temple, the gates of which were immediately shut. They were trying to kill him when the news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a tumult.
and how I served the Lord most humbly and with tears, through all the trials that I encountered because of the plots of the Jews.
We had just been through ill-treatment and insults at Philippi, as you remember, but, in the face of great opposition, we took courage by the help of our God, and told you God's good news.
I am telling the truth as a Christian, it is no falsehood, for my conscience under the holy Spirit's influence bears me witness in it, when I say that I am greatly pained and my heart is constantly distressed,
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