Galatians 3:5
3:5 Does God then give
you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law
or by your believing what you heard?
Acts 9:15
9:15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, because this man is my chosen instrument
to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.
Acts 13:2-11
13:2 While they were serving
the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart
for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
13:3 Then, after they had fasted
and
prayed and placed their hands
on them, they sent them off.
Paul and Barnabas Preach in Cyprus
13:4 So Barnabas and Saul, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
13:5 When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. (Now they also had John as their assistant.)
13:6 When they had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus,
13:7 who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. The proconsul summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.
13:8 But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
13:9 But Saul (also known as Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, stared straight at him
13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness – will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?
13:11 Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!” Immediately mistiness and darkness came over him, and he went around seeking people to lead him by the hand.
Acts 14:3-11
14:3 So they stayed there
for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified
to the message
of his grace, granting miraculous signs
and wonders to be performed through their hands.
14:4 But the population
of the city was divided; some
sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.
14:5 When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made
an attempt to mistreat
them and stone them,
14:6 Paul and Barnabas
learned about it
and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra
and Derbe
and the surrounding region.
14:7 There
they continued to proclaim
the good news.
Paul and Barnabas at Lystra
14:8 In Lystra sat a man who could not use his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked.
14:9 This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul stared intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed,
14:10 he said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And the man leaped up and began walking.
14:11 So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”
Acts 15:12
15:12 The whole group kept quiet and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
Acts 19:11-12
The Seven Sons of Sceva
19:11 God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands,
19:12 so that when even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body were brought to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.
Acts 19:26
19:26 And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded
and turned away
a large crowd,
not only in Ephesus
but in practically all of the province of Asia,
by saying
that gods made by hands are not gods at all.
Acts 21:19
21:19 When Paul
had greeted them, he began to explain
in detail
what God
had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Acts 22:21
22:21 Then
he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
Acts 26:17-18
26:17 I will rescue
you from your own people
and from the Gentiles, to whom
I am sending you
26:18 to open their eyes so that they turn
from darkness to light and from the power
of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share
among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Acts 26:1
Paul Offers His Defense
26:1 So Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul held out his hand and began his defense:
Colossians 1:5-7
1:5 Your faith and love have arisen
from the hope laid up
for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel
1:6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel
is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing
among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
1:7 You learned the gospel
from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave
– a
faithful minister of Christ on our
behalf –
Colossians 1:2
1:2 to the saints, the faithful
brothers and sisters
in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you
from God our Father!
Colossians 1:10
1:10 so that you may live
worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects
– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
Colossians 1:2
1:2 to the saints, the faithful
brothers and sisters
in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you
from God our Father!
Colossians 1:4-5
1:4 since
we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.
1:5 Your faith and love have arisen
from the hope laid up
for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel
Colossians 1:29
1:29 Toward this goal
I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully
works in me.