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Beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrins, and will beat you in their synagogues; and they will lead you before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them and the Gentiles. And when they may deliver you, be not solicitous how or what you may speak: for it will be given unto you in that hour what you may say.read more.
For you are not those speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking in you. And brother will deliver brother unto death, and the father the child: and children will rise up against parents, and put them to death. And you will be hated by all on account of my name: but he that persevereth unto the end, the same shall be saved. And when they may persecute you in this city, fly to another: for truly I say unto you, You may not complete the cities of Israel, until the Son of man may come.
And when they may lead you forth, delivering you up, do not be solicitous what you may speak, nor meditate: but whatsoever may be given to you in that hour, speak this: for you are not those speaking, but the Holy Spirit. And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and the children will rise up against the parents, and put them to death. And you shall be hated by all on account of my name: but the one persevering to the end, the same shall be saved.
And before all of these things, they will lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you into their synagogues and prisons, led before kings and governors on account of my name. And it shall come to pass to you for a testimony. Place it in your hearts, not to premeditate your defense:read more.
for I will give to you mouth and wisdom, which all who are opposed to you will not be able to gainsay nor resist. And you shall be delivered up also by your parents, and brothers, and relatives, and friends; and they will kill some of you. And you shall be hated by all, on account of my name: and not a hair from your head shall perish. In your patience gain your souls.
For we having come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but in everything being troubled; fightings without, fears within.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As has been written, that We are killed all day for thy sake; we are counted as sheep of the slaughter.
For we while living are always being delivered up to death for the sake of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So that death works in us, but life in you. But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which has been written, I believed, therefore I also spoke; and we believe, therefore we also speak;
giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, in order that the ministry may not be blamed; but in everything commending ourselves, as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulations, in straits, in difficulties, in stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labors, in vigils, in fastings;
Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a day and a night I spent in the deep.read more.
Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. Besides all these, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I do not burn?
I indeed know how to be poor, and I know how to abound: in every thing and in all things I learned both to flourish and to be poor, both to abound and to be destitute.
for a door is opened unto me great and effectual, and there are many antagonizing.
but that it may extend no further unto the people, let us threaten them to speak no more in this name to any one of men. And having called them, they command them, not at all to speak or teach in the name of Jesus.
And certain ones of the synagogues, called Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up disputing with Stephen,
And having gone through the whole island to Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a Jewish false prophet, to whom was the name of Bar-Jesus: who was with Sergius Paulus, the proconsul, an intelligent man. He, having called Barnabas and Saul, sought to hear the word of God; but Elymas the magician (for thus his name is interpreted) opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.
but having suffered, and been abused, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.
And Jesus said to them again, Peace be unto you: as the Father hath sent me, I also send you. And saying this, He breathed on them, and says to them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.
And I send the promise of the Father upon you: and you tarry in the city, until you may be endued with power from on high.
But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost having come upon you, and shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and all Judea, and in Samaria, and into the extremity of the earth.
for I will not dare to speak anything save those things which Christ has wrought through me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and deed, in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and around about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
And my speech and my preaching were not in the persuasive words of wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and the power: in order that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
teaching them to observe all things which I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, unto the end of the age.
because I am with thee, and no man shall assault thee to hurt thee: because there is much people to me in this city.
and thence they sailed away into Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
Then they having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, sent them away.
And Paul, having chosen Silas, went out, committed to the grace of the Lord by the brethren;
And he wishing to go into Achaia, the brethren having sent him forth wrote to the disciples to receive him. Who, being present, conferred much on those having believed through grace.
as I may journey into Spain, for I hope traveling through to see you, and by you to be sent forth thither, if in the first place I may be satisfied with your company??25 but now I journey to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints.
Whether in behalf of Titus, my companion and fellow-laborer towards you; or our brethren, the apostles of the churches, the glory of Christ. Moreover manifesting the exhibition of your love, and our boasting to them in your behalf, in the face of the churches.
Send on Zenas the lawyer and Apollos speedily, in order that nothing may be lacking to them.
But the apostles in Jerusalem, having heard that Samaria has received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John:
And the word was heard in the ears of the church in Jerusalem concerning them: and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. Who, coming, and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and continued to exhort all, with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord:
Then indeed they, having been sent away, came down into Antioch, and convening the multitude, they delivered the letter. And having read it, they rejoiced over the consolation. Both Judas and Silas, themselves also being prophets, exhorted the brethren with elaborate speech, and strengthened them;
but on the contrary, seeing that I am intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, like Peter of the circumcision, for the one having wrought with Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision also wrought with me unto the Gentiles: and having known the grace of God which was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, who seem to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;
Moreover you did beautifully, communicating with my tribulation. And you indeed know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the word of giving and receiving, except you alone; because also in Thessalonica both once and twice you sent to my need.read more.
Not that I seek a gift; but I seek fruit abounding to your credit. But I have all things, and I abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus those things from you, an odor of a sweet savor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, and apostle and the minister of my necessity;
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? If others partake of your bounty, shall not we the more? But we have not used this privilege, but we bear all things, in order that we may not give a hindrance to the gospel of Christ. Do you not know that those working in the sacrifices eat those things of the temple; and those serving the altar partake of the altar?read more.
So also the Lord has commanded those preaching the gospel to live of the gospel.
But I will come to you when I may go through Macedonia; for I do go through Macedonia; and perhaps I may abide with you, and even spend the winter with you, in order that you may send me forward whithersoever I may go.
But let the one who is taught the word communicate to the one teaching in all good things.
nor seeking glory from men, nor from you, nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as the apostles of Christ; but we were gentle in the midst of you, as if a nurse may cherish her children; being so desirous of you, that we are anxious not only to give the gospel of God, but our own souls, because you are beloved unto us.
at the same time also praying for us, in order that God may open to us the door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, on account of which I indeed am bound;
and for me that the word may be given unto me in opening of my mouth, boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chain; in order that in it I may preach boldly, as it behooves me to speak.
For I know that this will turn out to me unto salvation, through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Finally, brethren, pray for us in order that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, as even unto you:
And the brethren, hearing the news concerning us, came thence to meet us at the Appian Forum and Three Taverns: whom Paul, seeing, having given thanks to God, took courage.
But I hope in the Lord Jesus, speedily to send unto you Timothy, in order that I may also be delighted, having learned the things concerning you.
Hasten to come to me quickly. For Demas has left me, having loved the present age, and is gone into Thessalonica; Crescents into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia. Luke alone is with me. Having taken Mark, bring him with you: for he is useful unto me for the ministry.
When I shall send Artemas or Tychicus to you, hasten to come to me at Nicopolis: for I have determined to spend the winter there.
