Book Filter:
Gen. Rev.
Can't find the answer are looking for?
Ask a Question"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.
And he stared at him in terror and said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.
As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath.
And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, and had lowered the ship's boat into the sea under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow,
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
And why not do evil that good may come? - as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."
For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
Were you a slave when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)
Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.