'Message' in the Bible

When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent a message by his disciples

So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and He was speaking the message to them.

After seeing them, they reported the message they were told about this child,

They were astonished at His teaching because His message had authority.

Amazement came over them all, and they kept saying to one another, “What is this message? For He commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!”

So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

But this was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said:Lord, who has believed our message?And who has the arm of the Lordbeen revealed to?

I pray not only for these,but also for those who believe in Methrough their message.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them.

But many of those who heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to about 5,000.

And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your message with complete boldness,

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak God’s message with boldness.

So those who were scattered went on their way preaching the message of good news.

When the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had welcomed God’s message, they sent Peter and John to them.

Then, after they had testified and spoken the message of the Lord, they traveled back to Jerusalem, evangelizing many villages of the Samaritans.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely directed by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

He sent the message to the Israelites, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all.

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who heard the message.

The apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had welcomed God’s message also.

Those who had been scattered as a result of the persecution that started because of Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one except Jews.

Then God’s message flourished and multiplied.

Arriving in Salamis, they proclaimed God’s message in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their assistant.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear God’s message.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you can speak.”

“Brothers, sons of Abraham’s race, and those among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

The following Sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the message of the Lord.

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.

So the message of the Lord spread through the whole region.

So they stayed there for some time and spoke boldly in reliance on the Lord, who testified to the message of His grace by granting that signs and wonders be performed through them.

After they spoke the message in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them: “Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.

Both Judas and Silas, who were also prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers and strengthened them with a long message.

But Paul and Barnabas, along with many others, remained in Antioch teaching and proclaiming the message of the Lord.

After some time had passed, Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit the brothers in every town where we have preached the message of the Lord and see how they’re doing.”

They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia and were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia.

Then they spoke the message of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house.

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that God’s message had been proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there too, agitating and disturbing the crowds.

When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

In this way the Lord’s message flourished and prevailed.

On the first day of the week, we assembled to break bread. Paul spoke to them, and since he was about to depart the next day, he extended his message until midnight.

“And now I commit you to God and to the message of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim:

But all did not obey the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

to one is given a message of wisdomthrough the Spirit,to another, a message of knowledgeby the same Spirit,

You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose.

As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.”

For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.

That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

by the message of truth,by the power of God;through weapons of righteousnesson the right hand and the left,

The one who is taught the message must share all his good things with the teacher.

Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.

Most of the brothers in the Lord have gained confidence from my imprisonment and dare even more to speak the message fearlessly.

Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.

because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the message of truth, the gospel

I have become its servant, according to God’s administration that was given to me for you, to make God’s message fully known,

Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God.

At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to speak the mystery of the Messiah, for which I am in prison,

and you became imitators of us and of the Lord when, in spite of severe persecution, you welcomed the message with joy from the Holy Spirit.

For the Lord’s message rang out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place that your faith in God has gone out. Therefore, we don’t need to say anything,

This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the message about God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the message of God, which also works effectively in you believers.

not to be easily upset in mind or troubled, either by a spirit or by a message or by a letter as if from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has come.

Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions you were taught, either by our message or by our letter.

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you,

I suffer for it to the point of being bound like a criminal, but God’s message is not bound.

Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching.

In His own time He has revealed His message in the proclamation that I was entrusted with by the command of God our Savior:

holding to the faithful message as taught, so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and to refute those who contradict it.

to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God’s message will not be slandered.

Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment,

For we also have received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith

Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant.

Therefore, leaving the elementary message about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God,

By His own choice, He gave us a new birth by the message of truth so that we would be the firstfruits of His creatures.

andA stone to stumble over,and a rock to trip over.They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined for this.

In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live

Now this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in Him.

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the message you have heard.

For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,