God in Acts

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   After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

2. 1:4

   And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.

3. 1:7

   Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

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   both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”

5. 2:17

   ‘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.

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   Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.

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   He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

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   But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep Him in its grip.

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   But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

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    God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

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    Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

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    For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

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    Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”

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    This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

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    praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

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    He sprang to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and leaping and praising God.

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    When all the people saw him walking and praising God,

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    The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.

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    You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.

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    But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

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    Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.

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    For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.

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    And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

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    When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

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    then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.

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    But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.

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    After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.

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    When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

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    After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

30. 5:4

    Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How could you conceive such a deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God!”

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

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    The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.

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    God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

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

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    But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”

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    So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.

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    So the word of God continued to spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem grew rapidly, and a great number of priests became obedient to the faith.

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    Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”

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    And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

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    God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

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    ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’

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    Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

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    As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.

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    He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.

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    ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.

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    This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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    This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

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    But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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    And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

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    who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

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    But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

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    “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

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    and all the people, from the least to the greatest, heeded his words and said, “This man is the divine power called the Great Power.”

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    But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

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    When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

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    But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!

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    You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.

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    Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.

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    And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

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    Saul promptly began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, declaring, “He is the Son of God.”

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    He and all his household were devout and God-fearing. He gave generously to the people and prayed to God regularly.

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    One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”

63. 10:4

    Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.

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    The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

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    “Cornelius the centurion has sent us,” they said. “He is a righteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence in his home so he could hear a message from you.”

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    He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

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    and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your gifts to the poor have been remembered before God.

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    So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us.”

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    Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

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    how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

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    God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—

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    not by all the people, but by the witnesses God had chosen beforehand, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

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    And He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that He is the One appointed by God to judge the living and the dead.

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    For they heard them speaking in tongues and exalting God. Then Peter said,

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    The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

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    But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’

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    So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?”

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    When they heard this, they had no further objections, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

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    When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.

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    So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

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    Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

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    But the word of God continued to spread and multiply.

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    When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. And John was with them as their helper.

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    an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, a man of intelligence, summoned Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God.

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    Paul stood up, motioned with his hand, and began to speak: “Men of Israel and you Gentiles who fear God, listen to me!

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    The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.

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    Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

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    From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.

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    Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

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    But God raised Him from the dead,

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    He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.’

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    For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

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    But the One whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

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    After the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

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    On the following Sabbath, nearly the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.

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    Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

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    “Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

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    strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

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    From Attalia they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had just completed.

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     When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

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     On their arrival in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and apostles and elders, to whom they reported all that God had done through them.

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     After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.

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     And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.

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     Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?

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     The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

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     Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

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     so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these things

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     that have been known for ages.’

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     It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

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     but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.

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     Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.

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     This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!”

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     About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

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     Then he brought them into his home and set a meal before them. So he and all his household rejoiced that they had come to believe in God.

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     But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.

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     For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

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     The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

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     Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

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     Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.

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     So Paul left the synagogue and went next door to the house of Titus Justus, a worshiper of God.

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     So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians.

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     “This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.

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     But as he left, he said, “I will come back to you if God is willing.” And he set sail from Ephesus.

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     And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

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     Then Paul went into the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.

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     God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul,

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     So the word of the Lord powerfully continued to spread and prevail.

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     testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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     But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

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     Now I know that none of you among whom I have preached the kingdom will see my face again.

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     For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.

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     Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

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     And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

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     Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

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     “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.

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     Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear His voice.

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     Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”

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     Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”

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     But those standing nearby said, “How dare you insult the high priest of God!”

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     A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

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     I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

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     and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

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     In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.

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     And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,

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     the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

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     Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

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     to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

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     First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

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     But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

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     “Short time or long,” Paul replied, “I wish to God that not only you but all who hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains.”

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     For just last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me

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     and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And look, God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you.’

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     So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.

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     After he had said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.

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     The brothers there had heard about us and traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he was encouraged and gave thanks to God.

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     So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

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     Be advised, therefore, that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”

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     Boldly and freely he proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.