'Word' in the Bible

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God courageously.

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

The word of God continued to spread, the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

Now those who had been forced to scatter went around proclaiming the good news of the word.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

So after Peter and John had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, proclaiming the good news to many Samaritan villages as they went.

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

But the word of God kept on increasing and multiplying.

When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. (Now they also had John as their assistant.)

who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. The proconsul summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.

On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.

Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously, "It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and praise the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life believed.

So the word of the Lord was spreading through the entire region.

and when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

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

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing."

Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him, along with all those who were in his house.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.

Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

In this way the word of the Lord continued to grow in power and to prevail.