This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

But Peter said, “Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”

(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge –

The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.

to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,

Two or three prophets should speak and the others should evaluate what is said.

However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.

because a door of great opportunity stands wide open for me, but there are many opponents.

Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.

Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.

I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,

and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil people. For not all have faith.

No widow should be put on the list unless she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband,