he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’
And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.
And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say.”
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family. Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.
If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.’ So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”
He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.
For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.
The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!
he will bless those who fear the Lord, both the small and the great. May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!
His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”
(I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,
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