Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants devoted to governing.

All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,