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Acts 1:1; In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach

Acts 1:2; until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

Acts 1:3; After his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:4; On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.

Acts 1:5; For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 1:6; So when they met together, they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

Acts 1:7; He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.

Acts 1:8; But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 1:9; After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

Acts 1:10; They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.

Acts 1:11; “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

Acts 1:13; When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.

Acts 1:14; They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Acts 2:1; When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.

Acts 2:2; Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Acts 2:3; They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

Acts 2:4; All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Acts 2:21; And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

Acts 2:22; “Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.

Acts 2:23; This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.

Acts 2:24; But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.

Acts 2:25; David said about him: “‘I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Acts 2:26; Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will live in hope,

Acts 2:27; because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay.

Acts 2:28; You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.’

Acts 2:29; “Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day.

Acts 2:30; 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.

Acts 2:31; Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay.

Acts 2:32; God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact.

Acts 2:33; Exalted 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.

Acts 2:34; For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said, “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand

Acts 2:35; until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

Acts 2:36; Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Acts 2:37; When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Acts 2:38; Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:39; The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

Acts 2:41; Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Acts 2:42; They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Acts 2:43; Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.

Acts 2:44; All the believers were together and had everything in common.

Acts 2:45; elling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.

Acts 2:46; Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,

Acts 2:47; praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Acts 3:19; Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,

Acts 4:12; Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

Acts 4:24; When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. Sovereign Lord, they said, you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.

Acts 5:3; Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?

Acts 5:4; Didn't it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied to men but to God.”

Acts 5:17; Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

Acts 5:18; They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

Acts 5:19; But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out.

Acts 5:20; “Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people the full message of this new life.”

Acts 5:21; At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.

Acts 5:22; But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they went back and reported,

Acts 5:23; &lduqo;We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

Acts 5:24; On hearing this report, the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests were puzzled, wondering what would come of this.

Acts 5:25; Then someone came and said, “Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people.”

Acts 5:26; At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people would stone them.

Acts 5:27; Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest.

Acts 5:28; “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man's blood.”

Acts 5:29; Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than men!

Acts 5:30; The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead—whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree.

Acts 5:31; God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

Acts 5:32; We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Acts 5:33; When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death.

Acts 5:34; But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a little while.

Acts 5:35; Then he addressed them: “Men of Israel, consider carefully what you intend to do to these men.

Acts 5:36; Some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men rallied to him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.

Acts 5:37; After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and led a band of people in revolt. He too was killed, and all his followers were scattered.

Acts 5:38; Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.

Acts 5:39; But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.”

Acts 5:40; His speech persuaded them. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Acts 5:41; The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

Acts 5:42; Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.

Acts 7:48; However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made by men. As the prophet says:

Acts 7:49; ‘Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. What house will you build for Me? says the LORD, Or where will my resting place be?

Acts 7:50; Has not my hand made all these things?

Acts 8:1; And Saul was there, giving approval to his death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.

Acts 8:3; But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

Acts 8:26; Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”

Acts 8:27; So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,

Acts 8:28; and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the book of Isaiah the prophet.

Acts 8:29; The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”

Acts 8:30; Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.

Acts 8:31; “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

Acts 8:32; The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Acts 8:33; In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”

Acts 8:34; The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?”

Acts 8:35; Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

Acts 8:36; As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”(NIV)

Acts 8:37; And Philip said, If you believeth with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.(KJV)

Acts 8:38; And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.

Acts 8:39; When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.(NIV)

Acts 8:40; Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.

Acts 10:26; But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”

Acts 10:34; Then Peter began to speak: I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism

Acts 10:35; but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right.

Acts 10:37; You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached—Note

Acts 10:38; how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

Acts 12:12; When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying.

Acts 13:2; While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Acts 13:3; So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.

Acts 13:22; After removing Saul, he made David their king. He testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’

Acts 14:15; Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

Acts 14:21; They preached the good news in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,

Acts 14:22; strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

Acts 15:11; No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”

Acts 16:6; Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.

Acts 16:7; When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.

Acts 16:8; So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas.

Acts 16:9; During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

Acts 16:10; After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

Acts 16:11; From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis.

Acts 16:12; From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.

Acts 16:13; On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.

Acts 16:14; One of 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.

Acts 16:15; When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. "If you consider me a believer in the Lord," she said, "come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us.

Acts 16:16; Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.

Acts 16:17; This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved."

Acts 16:25; About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

Acts 16:31; They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

Acts 16:34; The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole family.

Acts 17:10; As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

Acts 17:11; Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

Acts 17:21; that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

Acts 17:24; God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.

Acts 17:25; And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.

Acts 17:26; From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.

Acts 17:27; so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

Acts 17:28; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

Acts 17:30; In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

Acts 17:31; For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.

Acts 18:19; They arrived at Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

Acts 19:6; When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.

Acts 20:5; These men went on ahead and waited for us at Troas.

Acts 20:6; But we sailed from Philippi after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined the others at Troas, where we stayed seven days.

Acts 20:7; On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.

Acts 20:8; There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.

Acts 20:9; Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.

Acts 20:10; Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. "Don’t be alarmed," he said. "He’s alive!"

Acts 20:11; Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left.

Acts 20:12; The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.

Acts 20:13; We went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had made this arrangement because he was going there on foot.

Acts 20:14; When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.

Acts 20:15; The next day we set sail from there and arrived off Kios. The day after that we crossed over to Samos, and on the following day arrived at Miletus.

Acts 20:30; Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.

Acts 26:8; Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

Acts 26:18; to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.‘

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