Acts 15:1-4
THE CONVENTION AT JERUSALEM. The question about circumcision:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CONVENTION AT JERUSALEM. The question about circumcision:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CERTAIN MEN WHICH CAME DOWN FROM JUDEA TAUGHT THE BRETHREN AND SAID, EXCEPT YE BE CIRCUMCISED AFTER THE MANNER OF MOSES, YE CANNOT BE SAVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THEREFORE PAUL AND BARNABAS HAD NO SMALL DISSENSION AND DISPUTATION WITH THEM, THEY DETERMINED THAT PAUL AND BARNABAS AND CERTAIN OTHER OF THEM SHOULD GO UP TO JERUSALEM UNTO THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS ABOUT THIS QUESTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BEING BROUGHT ON THEIR WAY BY THE CHURCH, THEY PASSED THROUGH PHENICE AND SAMARIA, DECLARING THE CONVERSION OF THE GENTILES; AND THEY CAUSED GREAT JOY UNTO ALL THE BRETHREN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY WERE COME TO JERUSALEM, THEY WERE RECEIVED OF THE CHURCH, AND OF THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS, AND THEY DECLARED ALL THINGS THAT GOD HAD DONE WITH THEM. The Christian congregations of Palestine and Syria were now enjoying a season of external peace and prosperity, and therefore Satan, as a... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THERE ROSE UP CERTAIN OF THE SECT OF THE PHARISEES WHICH BELIEVED, SAYING, THAT IT WAS NEEDFUL TO CIRCUMCISE THEM, AND TO COMMAND THEM TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
The demand of the former Pharisees and Peter's answer:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS CAME TOGETHER FOR TO CONSIDER OF THIS MATTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THERE HAD BEEN MUCH DISPUTING, PETER ROSE UP AND SAID UNTO THEM, MEN AND BRETHREN, YE KNOW HOW THAT A GOOD WHILE AGO GOD MADE CHOICE AMONG US THAT THE GENTILES BY MY MOUTH SHOULD HEAR THE WORD OF THE GOSPEL AND BELIEVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GOD, WHICH KNOWETH THE HEARTS, BARE THEM WITNESS, GIVING THEM THE HOLY GHOST, EVEN AS HE DID UNTO US;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PUT NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US AND THEM, PURIFYING THEIR HEARTS BY FAITH.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, THEREFORE, WHY TEMPT YE GOD TO PUT A YOKE UPON THE NECK OF THE DISCIPLES WHICH NEITHER OUR FATHERS NOR WE WERE ABLE TO BEAR?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WE SHALL BE SAVED, EVEN AS THEY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN ALL THE MULTITUDE KEPT SILENCE, AND GAVE AUDIENCE TO BARNABAS AND PAUL, DECLARING WHAT MIRACLES AND WONDERS GOD HAD WROUGHT AMONG THE GENTILES BY THEM. Matters seemed to be adjusting themselves very nicely, when opposition developed. Some men that had formerly been members of the sect of the Ph... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER THEY HAD HELD THEIR PEACE, JAMES ANSWERED, SAYING, MEN AND BRETHREN, HEARKEN UNTO ME:... [ Continue Reading ]
The proposal of James:... [ Continue Reading ]
SIMEON HATH DECLARED HOW GOD AT THE FIRST DID VISIT THE GENTILES TO TAKE OUT OF THEM A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TO THIS AGREE THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS, AS IT IS WRITTEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THIS I WILL RETURN, AND WILL BUILD AGAIN THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH IS FALLEN DOWN; AND I WILL BUILD AGAIN THE RUINS THEREOF, AND I WILL SET IT UP,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THE RESIDUE OF MEN MIGHT SEEK AFTER THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES UPON WHOM MY NAME IS CALLED, SAITH THE LORD, WHO DOETH ALL THESE THINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOWN UNTO GOD ARE ALL HIS WORKS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE MY SENTENCE IS THAT WE TROUBLE NOT THEM WHICH FROM AMONG THE GENTILES A RETURNED TO GOD,... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THAT WE WRITE UNTO THEM THAT THEY ABSTAIN FROM POLLUTIONS OF IDOLS, AND FROM FORNICATION, AND FROM THINGS STRANGLED, AND FROM BLOOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR MOSES OF OLD TIME HATH IN EVERY CITY THEM THAT PREACH HIM, BEING READ IN THE SYNAGOGUES EVERY SABBATH-DAY. By the time Barnabas and Paul had finished their rehearsal of the success which attended their labors, the hearers could not have had any other impression but that the conversion of the Gen... [ Continue Reading ]
The resolutions of the assembly:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PLEASED IT THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS, WITH THE WHOLE CHURCH, TO SEND CHOSEN MEN OF THEIR OWN COMPANY TO ANTIOCH WITH PAUL AND BARNABAS; NAMELY, JUDAS, SURNAMED BARSABAS, AND SILAS, CHIEF MEN AMONG THE BRETHREN;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WROTE LETTERS BY THEM AFTER THIS MANNER: THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS AND BRETHREN SEND GREETING UNTO THE BRETHREN WHICH ARE OF THE GENTILES IN ANTIOCH AND SYRIA AND CILICIA.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORASMUCH AS WE HAVE HEARD THAT CERTAIN WHICH WENT OUT FROM US HAVE TROUBLED YOU WITH WORDS, SUBVERTING YOUR SOULS, SAYING, YE MUST BE CIRCUMCISED, AND KEEP THE LAW, TO WHOM WE GAVE NO SUCH COMMANDMENT,... [ Continue Reading ]
IT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US, BEING ASSEMBLED WITH ONE ACCORD, TO SEND CHOSEN MEN UNTO YOU WITH OUR BELOVED BARNABAS AND PAUL,... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN THAT HAVE HAZARDED THEIR LIVES FOR THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE HAVE SENT THEREFORE JUDAS AND SILAS, WHO SHALL ALSO TELL YOU THE SAME THINGS BY MOUTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT SEEMED GOOD TO THE HOLY GHOST AND TO US TO LAY UPON YOU NO GREATER BURDEN THAN THESE NECESSARY THINGS:... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT YE ABSTAIN FROM MEATS OFFERED TO IDOLS, AND FROM BLOOD, AND FROM THINGS STRANGLED, AND FROM FORNICATION; FROM WHICH IF YE KEEP YOURSELVES, YE SHALL DO WELL. FARE YE WELL. The speech of James ended the discussion. The opposition could not hold out against this clear presentation. The manner empl... [ Continue Reading ]
SO WHEN THEY WERE DISMISSED, THEY CAME TO ANTIOCH; AND WHEN THEY HAD GATHERED THE MULTITUDE TOGETHER, THEY DELIVERED THE EPISTLE;... [ Continue Reading ]
The delegates in Antioch:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH WHEN THEY HAD READ, THEY REJOICED FOR THE CONSOLATION.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JUDAS AND SILAS, BEING PROPHETS ALSO THEMSELVES, EXHORTED THE BRETHREN WITH MANY WORDS AND CONFIRMED THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER THEY HAD TARRIED THERE A SPACE, THEY WERE LET GO IN PEACE FROM THE BRETHREN UNTO THE APOSTLES.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOTWITHSTANDING IT PLEASED SILAS TO ABIDE THERE STILL.... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL ALSO AND BARNABAS CONTINUED IN ANTIOCH, TEACHING AND PREACHING THE WORD OF THE LORD, WITH MANY OTHERS ALSO. The delegates of the congregation at Jerusalem having received their credentials, they were sent away, together with Paul and Barnabas, in a spirit of brotherly love, and probably after a... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SOME DAYS AFTER, PAUL SAID UNTO BARNABAS, LET US GO AGAIN AND VISIT OUR BRETHREN IN EVERY CITY WHERE WE HAVE PREACHED THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND SEE HOW THEY DO.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BEGINNING OF PAUL'S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BARNABAS DETERMINED TO TAKE WITH THEM JOHN, WHOSE SURNAME WAS MARK.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PAUL THOUGHT NOT GOOD TO TAKE HIM WITH THEM WHO DEPARTED FROM THEM FROM PAMPHYLIA, AND WENT NOT WITH THEM TO THE WORK.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE CONTENTION WAS SO SHARP BETWEEN THEM THAT THEY DEPARTED ASUNDER ONE FROM THE OTHER; AND SO BARNABAS TOOK MARK, AND SAILED UNTO CYPRUS;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PAUL CHOSE SILAS AND DEPARTED, BEING RECOMMENDED BY THE BRETHREN UNTO THE GRACE OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WENT THROUGH SYRIA AND CILICIA, CONFIRMING THE CHURCHES. After some days, after some time had elapsed, Paul suggested to Barnabas that they return, that they reenter the road over which they had traveled, and visit the brethren in every city in which they had proclaimed the Word of the Lord,... [ Continue Reading ]