Joppa

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, `Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;

and it came to pass, that he remained many days in Joppa, with a certain one, Simon a tanner.

And they said, `Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.'

he saw in a vision manifestly, as it were the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, `Cornelius;'

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →

And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour,

and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, `What is it, Lord?' And he said to him, `Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God,

and the Lord <FI>saith<Fi> unto him, `Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, <FI>one<Fi> by name Saul of Tarsus, for, lo, he doth pray,

and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;

and those of the circumcision believing were astonished--as many as came with Peter--because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit hath been poured out,

And Cornelius said, `Four days ago till this hour, I was fasting, and <FI>at<Fi> the ninth hour praying in my house, and, lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

and as it came that Peter entered in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at <FI>his<Fi> feet, did bow before <FI>him<Fi> ;

And Peter thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, `Lo, three men do seek thee;

pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian,

And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

And it cometh to pass, after the death of Saul, that David hath returned from smiting the Amalekite, and David dwelleth in Ziklag two days, — read the full passage →

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death; — read the full passage →

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

and Peter raised him, saying, `Stand up; I also myself am a man;'

And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'

and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'

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

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

he commanded them also to be baptized in the name of the Lord; then they besought him to remain certain days.

for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, — read the full passage →

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged <FI>it<Fi> , to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

also to which an antitype doth now save us--baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples,

and there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, `Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe; — read the full passage →

and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;

Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive--even as also we?'

to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'

and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead--

and we--we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, --whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.

Jesus who <FI>is<Fi> from Nazareth--how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;

ye--ye have known; --the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached;

but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.'

and he said, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy kind acts were remembered before God;

therefore also without gainsaying I came, having been sent for; I ask, therefore, for what matter ye did send for me?'

Having called them in, therefore, he lodged them, and on the morrow Peter went forth with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa went with him,

and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.

and <FI>there is<Fi> a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven,

and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,

and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,

this one doth lodge with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea; this one shall speak to thee what it behoveth thee to do.'

and now send men to Joppa, and send for a certain one Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

and he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name--for eight years laid upon a couch--who was paralytic,

And it came to pass that Peter passing throughout all <FI>quarters<Fi> , came down also unto the saints who were dwelling at Lydda,

And he said, `Who art thou, Lord?' and the Lord said, `I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;'

And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest, — read the full passage →

And having arisen, he went on, and lo, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a man of rank, of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship to Jerusalem;

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles; — read the full passage →

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place,

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;

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

And Moab transgresseth against Israel after the death of Ahab, — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, in the days of the judging of the judges, that there is a famine in the land, and there goeth a man from Beth-Lehem-Judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world; — read the full passage →

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray--not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Markus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lukas, my fellow-workmen!

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth, — read the full passage →

And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them--to the end!

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

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing; — read the full passage →

and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'

Brethren, as a man I say <FI>it<Fi> , even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to, — read the full passage →

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent--this very thing--to do.

but not even Titus, who <FI>is<Fi> with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised--

Paul, an apostle--not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead-- — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle--not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead--

for not that for others release, and ye pressured, <FI>do I speak,<Fi> — read the full passage →