Testimonies

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;

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.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

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.”

saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

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.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore also we speak;

Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

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.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests, — read the full passage →

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. — read the full passage →

The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. — read the full passage →

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, — read the full passage →

You are witnesses of these things.

For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. — read the full passage →

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak. — read the full passage →

but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.

But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

He said to them, “Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.