For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

But the other rebuked him, saying, “Don’t you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

He jumped up, stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets – that his Christ would suffer – he has fulfilled in this way.

“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

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

So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.

When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed –

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

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.

But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing –

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.