When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,

So Peter invited them in and entertained them as guests. On the next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all the things God had done with them.

But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.”

As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

Then you’re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the ‘Assassins’ into the wilderness some time ago?”

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

– whose appearing the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, will reveal at the right time.

But to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.

Then the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood poured out of the winepress up to the height of horses’ bridles for a distance of almost two hundred miles.

On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth.”