There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.

He told them, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family.

to another performance of miracles, to another prophecy, and to another discernment of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish.

The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

So Joseph, a Levite who was a native of Cyprus, called by the apostles Barnabas (which is translated “son of encouragement”),

On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, arrived in Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker, well-versed in the scriptures.

And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues.

I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star!”