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And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so [Abraham] begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac [begot] Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is mute, So he does not open his mouth:

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was multiplied.

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.

So he called them in and lodged them. And on the next day he arose and went forth with them, and certain of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.

And the angel said to him, Gird yourself, and bind on your sandals. And he did so. And he says to him, Cast your garment about you, and follow me.

And they said to her, You are insane. But she confidently affirmed that it was even so. And they said, It is his angel.

So they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.

For so has the Lord commanded us, [saying], "I have set you for a light of the Gentiles, That you should be for salvation to the uttermost part of the earth."

And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

So they, when they were dismissed, came down to Antioch; and having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle.

And there arose a sharp contention, so that they separated apart one from the other, and Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away to Cyprus;

So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison-house were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those that met him.

and he said to them, Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? And they [said] to him, No, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was [given].