Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Both Judas and Silas, who were prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with a long speech.

They had a sharp disagreement, so that they parted company. Barnabas took along Mark and sailed away to Cyprus,

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.

Then he brought them outside and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

The jailer brought them into his house and set food before them, and he rejoiced greatly that he had come to believe in God, together with his entire household.

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them (for they were tentmakers by trade).

When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews.

After he had gone through those regions and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to Greece,

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.

They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

When he came to the steps, Paul had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob,

(When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,