Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.

What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,

For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.

And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God. Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.

For God does not show favoritism.

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

And they prayed, “Lord, You know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two You have chosen

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.

What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.

But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!” Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and addressed the crowd: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen carefully to my words. These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. . . .

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

It was the first day of the week, and that very evening, while the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you!” He said to them.

When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near. John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood, . . .

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.

I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.

As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,” she said, “and we do not know where they have put Him!”

and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.

To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near the city, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” And after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off. So Barnabas and Saul, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus. When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. And John was with them as their helper. . . .

Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

My companions saw the light, but they could not understand the voice of the One speaking to me.

Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense: “King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate to stand before you today to defend myself against all the accusations of the Jews, especially since you are acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. I beg you, therefore, to listen to me patiently. Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from the earliest days of my youth, among my own people and in Jerusalem. They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion. . . .

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’ In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.

However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.

The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless. They heard the voice but did not see anyone.

by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.

But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent down to look into the tomb,

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God— the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh, and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith. . . .

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand, not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”