that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols<n id="1" /> and from blood and from what has been strangled<n id="2" /> and from sexual immorality.<n id="3" /> If you keep yourselves from doing these things,<n id="4" /> you will do well. Farewell.<n id="5" />p>

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few<n id="1" /> prominent<n id="2" /> Greek women and men.

Even from among your own group<n id="1" /> men<n id="2" /> will arise, teaching perversions of the truth<n id="3" /> to draw the disciples away after them.

And now I advise<n id="1" /> you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.<n id="2" />

Because they were afraid<n id="1" /> that we would run aground on the rocky coast,<n id="2" /> they threw out<n id="3" /> four anchors from the stern and wished<n id="4" /> for day to appear.<n id="5" />

(Now this man Judas<n id="1" /> acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed,<n id="2" /> and falling headfirst<n id="3" /> he burst open in the middle and all his intestines<n id="4" /> gushed out.

Suddenly<n id="1" /> a sound<n id="2" /> like a violent wind blowing<n id="3" /> came from heaven<n id="4" /> and filled the entire house where they were sitting.

For David says about him,p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>I saw the Lord always in front of me,i>b><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shakenb>.i>p>

So then, because<n id="1" /> he was a prophet and knew that God <i>had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendantsi><n id="2" /> <i>on his thronei>,<n id="3" />

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says,p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>The Lord said to my lord,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>Siti>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>at my right handi>b>p>

You killed<n id="1" /> the Originator<n id="2" /> of life, whom God raised<n id="3" /> from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!<n id="4" />

But carefully select from among you, brothers,<n id="1" /> seven<n id="2" /> men who are well-attested,<n id="3" /> full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge<n id="4" /> of this necessary task.<n id="5" />

But some men from the Synagogue<n id="1" /> of the Freedmen (as it was called),<n id="2" /> both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia,<n id="3" /> stood up and argued with Stephen.

and said to him, &#8216;<b><i>Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show youi>b>.&#8217;<n id="1" />

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites,<n id="1" /> &#8216;<b><i>God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothersi>b>.&#8217;<n id="2" />

But Stephen,<n id="1" /> full<n id="2" /> of the Holy Spirit, looked intently<n id="3" /> toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing<n id="4" /> at the right hand of God.

&#8220;Look!&#8221; he said.<n id="1" /> &#8220;I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!&#8221;

The<n id="1" /> circumcised believers<n id="2" /> who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished<n id="3" /> that<n id="4" /> the gift of the Holy Spirit<n id="5" /> had been poured out<n id="6" /> even on the Gentiles,

But there were some men from Cyprus<n id="1" /> and Cyrene<n id="2" /> among them who came<n id="3" /> to Antioch<n id="4" /> and began to speak to the Greeks<n id="5" /> too, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled<n id="1" /> forty years.