and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time would you persuade me to be a Christian?”
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,
That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 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.”
Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord Jesus.
And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.
You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord God will put you to death, but his servants he will call by another name,
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