Study Desk

and from there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.

And having arrived, and gathering the assembly, they reported what things God did with them and that He opened a door of faith to the nations.

And having arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the assembly and the apostles and the elders. And they reported what things God did with them.

And much disputation having occurred, rising up Peter said to them: Men, brothers, you recognize that from ancient days, God chose among us that through my mouth the nations should hear the Word of the gospel, and to believe.

And the heart-knowing God testified to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us.

Now, then, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we had strength to bear?

And all the multitude kept silent and were hearing Barnabas and Paul recounting what things God did through them among the nations, even the miraculous signs and wonders.

Simon recounted how even as at first God oversaw to take a people out from among the nations for His name.

All His works are known to God from eternity.

For this reason I judge not to trouble those from the nations turning to God,

But having chosen Silas, Paul went out, being commended to the grace of God by the brothers.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, one reverencing God, listened, whose heart the Lord opened thoroughly to pay attention to the things being spoken by Paul.

Following after Paul and us, she cried out, saying, These men are slaves of the Most High God, who are announcing to us a way of salvation!

And having prayed, toward midnight Paul and Silas praised God in a hymn. And the prisoners listened to them.

And bringing them up to the house, he set a table before them , and exulted whole-housely, believing God.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the Word of God was also announced in Berea by Paul, they came there also, shaking up the crowd.

And standing in the middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Men, Athenians, I see in everything how god-fearing you are ;

for passing through and looking up at the objects of your worship, I also found an altar on which had been written, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Not knowing, then, whom you worship, I make Him known to you.

The God who made the world and all things in it, this One being Lord of Heaven and of earth, does not dwell in handmade temples,

Then being offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and the imagination of man.