- As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning.
- After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
- In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
- And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.
- We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
- ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
- Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
- They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
- Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.
- About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
- All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.
- Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
- They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
- Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.
- Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
- Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
- Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
- You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.
- For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
“I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.” - All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
- After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
- Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.
- While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
- But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Bible verse of the day
A fool spurns a parent’s discipline,but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.