Sauls Conversion

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

Butrise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him, — read the full passage →

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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.

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,

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

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

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing. — read the full passage →

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also, — read the full passage →

but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

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 they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

Being warned in a dream that they shouldn’t return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way. — read the full passage →

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up. — read the full passage →

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night. — read the full passage →

The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, — read the full passage →

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme; — read the full passage →

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’

He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. — read the full passage →

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell therein;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said, — read the full passage →

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’ — read the full passage →

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. — read the full passage →

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’”

“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”

They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words. — read the full passage →

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. — read the full passage →

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?” — read the full passage →

While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in Yahweh’s house.

I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.” — read the full passage →