For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:

And they paid close attention to him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic.

They did so, sending their financial aid to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

So the word of the Lord was spreading through the entire region.

On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”

Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas who will tell you these things themselves in person.

God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands,

After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

From there we put out to sea and sailed under the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham’s sake,

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!