Joppa

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

He stayed many days in Joppa with one Simon, a tanner.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judahfor one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.

While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men seek you.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death. — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”

But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.

When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe. — read the full passage →

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?”

So he called them in and lodged them. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

He lodges with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside.

Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is also called Peter.

There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, — read the full passage →

He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

They said to you that “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. — read the full passage →

Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. — read the full passage →

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed, — read the full passage →