So after Peter and John had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, proclaiming the good news to many Samaritan villages as they went.

In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth.”

Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which in translation means Dorcas). She was continually doing good deeds and acts of charity.

The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.

At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.

The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. So come out now and go in peace.”

So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.

Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.

After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left to go to Macedonia.

Now all the Jews know the way I lived from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent storm continued to batter us, we finally abandoned all hope of being saved.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.”

And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.