10 Bible Verses about Speaking In Christ's Name
Most Relevant Verses
Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?'
and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
But when they believed Philip, who preached the gospel of the Reign of God and the name of Jesus, they had themselves baptized, both men and women;
However, to keep things from going any further with the people, we had better threaten them that they are not to tell anyone in future about this Name."
So they called the men in and ordered them not to speak or teach a single sentence about the Name of Jesus.
"We strictly forbade you to teach about this Name, did we not? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine! You want to make us responsible for this man's death!"
They gave in to him, and after summoning the apostles and giving them a flogging, they released them with instructions that they were not to speak about the name of Jesus.
Barnabas, however, got hold of him and brought him to the apostles. To them he related how he had seen the Lord upon the road, how He had spoken to him, and how he had spoken freely in the name of Jesus at Damascus.
He then went in and out among them at Jerusalem, speaking freely in the name of the Lord;
But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.
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