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

and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

“Look!” he said. “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

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

He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.

But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the ambush, he came and entered the barracks and told Paul.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.

to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.