Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!”

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him,

saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.”

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

After they had spent some time there, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

“Brothers and fathers, listen to my defense that I now make to you.”

because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

Then he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

and provide mounts for Paul to ride so that he may be brought safely to Felix the governor.”

But there are some Jews from the province of Asia who should be here before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me.

Agrippa said to Paul, “In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?”

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.

So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

This is the reason I was often hindered from coming to you.

and I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of Christ’s blessing.

so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.

Some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.