- As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
- Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.
- Open your mouth for the mute,
for the rights of all who are destitute. - If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak.
- And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
- And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
- Open your mouth, judge righteously,
defend the rights of the poor and needy. - Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.
- Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord God.
- But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.
- Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.
- For the customs of the peoples are vanity.
A tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
They decorate it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good. - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
- The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
- I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
- For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
- Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus.
- And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
- Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
- Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.”
- You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.