These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Acts 14
Brit Hadashah 28 verses
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At Iconium the Apostles went together to the Jewish and preached, with the result that a great number both of Jews and Greeks believed.
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But the Jews who had refused obedience stirred up the Gentiles and embittered their minds against the brethren.
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- 3 Yet and Barnabas remained there for a considerable time, speaking freely and relying on the Lord, while He bore witness to the Message of His by permitting signs and marvels to be done by them.
- 4 At length the people of the city split into parties, some siding with the Jews and some with the Apostles.
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And when a hostile movement was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with the sanction of their magistrates, to maltreat and stone them,
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the Apostles, having become aware of it, made their escape into the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe, and the neighbouring country.
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And there they continued to tell the Good News.
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Now a man who had no power in his feet used to sit in the streets of Lystra. He had been lame from his birth and had never walked.
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After this man had listened to one of Paul’s sermons, the Apostle, looking steadily at him and perceiving that he had to be cured,
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said in a loud voice, “Stand upright upon your feet!”
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So he sprang up and began to walk about. Then the crowds, seeing what had done, rent the air with their shouts in the Lycaonian language, saying, “The Elohims have assumed human form and have come down to us.”
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They called Barnabas ‘Zeus,’ and , as being the principal speaker, ‘Hermes.’
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And the of Zeus—the of Zeus being at the entrance to the city—brought bullocks and garlands to the gates, and in company with the crowd was intending to offer sacrifices to them.
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But the Apostles, Barnabas and , heard of it; and tearing their clothes they rushed out into the middle of the crowd, exclaiming, “Sirs, why are you doing all this?
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We also are but men, with natures kindred to your own; and we bring you the Good News that you are to turn from these unreal things, to the ever-living , the Creator of earth and sky and sea and of everything that is in them.
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1 Samuel 12:21 Acts 10:26 Jeremiah 14:22 Revelation 14:7 1 Corinthians 8:4 James 5:17 Deuteronomy 32:21 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Genesis 1:1 Acts 4:24 Matthew 16:16 Jeremiah 8:19 Joshua 3:10 Daniel 6:26 Acts 27:25 Acts 26:17-20 Acts 12:22-23 Isaiah 46:7 Revelation 19:19 Zechariah 12:1 Deuteronomy 5:26 Revelation 22:9 Acts 27:21 Acts 16:30 Acts 27:10 Daniel 2:28-30 Acts 13:32 Psalm 124:8 John 7:18 Genesis 41:16 Acts 14:7 Romans 1:20-23 Acts 7:26 Isaiah 44:9-10 Jeremiah 10:8 Jeremiah 10:10-11 2 Kings 19:16 Amos 2:4 Jonah 2:8 Ephesians 4:17 1 Samuel 17:26 Revelation 19:10 2 Kings 19:4 Isaiah 45:18 Psalm 33:6 1 Samuel 17:36 Acts 3:12-13 1 Kings 16:13 1 Timothy 3:15 Proverbs 8:23-31 1 Kings 16:26 Acts 17:16-18 Psalm 31:6 Psalm 146:5-6 John 5:26 Isaiah 44:19-20 Acts 14:21 Jeremiah 32:17 Hebrews 3:12 Acts 17:24-30 Jeremiah 10:3-5 Jeremiah 10:14-15 Isaiah 45:20 Exodus 20:11 -
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In times gone by He allowed all the nations to go their own ways;
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and yet by His beneficence He has not left His existence unattested—His beneficence, I mean, in sending you rain from Heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and joyfulness.”
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Job 5:10 Deuteronomy 11:14 Romans 1:19-20 Deuteronomy 28:12 Leviticus 26:4 Ezekiel 34:26 Psalm 104:24-28 Psalm 65:9-13 Psalm 145:15-16 Jeremiah 14:22 Psalm 147:7-8 Luke 6:35 Isaiah 22:13 Job 38:26-28 James 5:17-18 Psalm 145:9 Nehemiah 9:25 1 Timothy 6:17 Acts 17:27-28 Jeremiah 5:24 Psalm 52:1 Psalm 19:1-4 Isaiah 5:6 Psalm 36:5-7 Deuteronomy 8:12-14 Joel 2:23 Job 37:6 1 Kings 18:1 Psalm 68:9-10 Matthew 5:45 -
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Even with words like these they had difficulty in preventing the thronging crowd from sacrifices to them.
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- 19 But now a party of Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and, having won over the crowd, they stoned and dragged him out of the town, believing him to be dead.
- 20 When, however, the disciples had collected round him, he rose and went back into the town. The next day he went with Barnabas to Derbe;
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and, after proclaiming the Good News to the people there and gaining a large number of converts, they retraced their steps to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch.
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Everywhere they strengthened the disciples by encouraging them to hold fast to the , and warned them saying, “It is through many afflictions that we must make our way into the Kingdom of .”
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John 16:33 2 Timothy 3:12 Colossians 1:23 1 Peter 5:10 1 Thessalonians 3:2-4 Romans 8:17 Acts 11:23 2 Peter 1:11 Luke 22:28-29 Acts 13:43 2 Timothy 1:8 Acts 15:41 Acts 18:23 Acts 15:32 1 Thessalonians 3:13 John 3:5 Matthew 10:21-22 John 16:1-2 John 12:25-26 1 Corinthians 1:8 2 Timothy 2:11-12 Mark 10:24-25 John 15:9-10 John 15:20 John 8:31-32 Matthew 10:38 Revelation 7:14 Matthew 16:24 Acts 6:7 John 15:4-6 Luke 24:26 Revelation 1:9 1 Peter 4:12-16 Matthew 19:24 Mark 9:47 Jude 1:3 Jude 1:20-21 Acts 9:16 Isaiah 35:3 Revelation 2:10 Mark 10:30 -
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And in every Church, after prayer and fasting, they selected Elders by show of hands, and commended them to the Lord on whom their rested.
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Then passing through Pisidia they came into Pamphylia;
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- 25 and after telling the Message at Perga they came down to Attaleia.
- 26 Thence they sailed to Antioch, where they had previously been commended to the of in connexion with the work which they had now completed.
- 27 Upon their arrival they called the Church together and proceeded to report in detail all that , working with them, had done, and how He had opened for the Gentiles the door of .
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And they remained a considerable time in Antioch with the disciples.
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