for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength.
and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame!
Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.
But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.
and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.
Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.
But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking true and rational words.
“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!
And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
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