Bible Reading for July 19 and 20
World English Bible
July
19
1
Chronicles 19-21
1Ch
19:1 It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
1Ch
19:2 David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash,
because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent messengers to
comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the
land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
1Ch
19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Do you
think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters
to you? Haven't his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and
to spy out the land?
1Ch
19:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off
their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them
away.
1Ch
19:5 Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men
were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed.
The king said, Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then
return.
1Ch
19:6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves
odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand
talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of
Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.
1Ch
19:7 So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king
of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The
children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and
came to battle.
1Ch
19:8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the
mighty men.
1Ch
19:9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at
the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves
in the field.
1Ch
19:10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before
and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in
array against the Syrians.
1Ch
19:11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai
his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of
Ammon.
1Ch
19:12 He said, If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall
help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I
will help you.
1Ch
19:13 Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people, and
for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.
1Ch
19:14 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the
Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
1Ch
19:15 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they
likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city.
Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
1Ch
19:16 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they
sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond the
River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their
head.
1Ch
19:17 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and
passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle in array
against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the
Syrians, they fought with him.
1Ch
19:18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the
Syrians the men of
seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed
Shophach the captain of the army.
1Ch
19:19 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by
Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: neither would the
Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
1Ch
20:1 It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time
when kings go out to battle,
that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children
of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at
Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
1Ch
20:2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found
it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it;
and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the
city, exceeding much.
1Ch
20:3 He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut them
with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all
the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people
returned to Jerusalem.
1Ch
20:4 It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the
Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons
of the giant; and they were subdued.
1Ch
20:5 There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son
of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of
whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
1Ch
20:6 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great
stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six on
each hand, and six on
each foot; and he also was born to the
giant.
1Ch
20:7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's
brother killed him.
1Ch
20:8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand
of David, and by the hand of his servants.
1Ch
21:1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number
Israel.
1Ch
21:2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number
Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know
the sum of them.
1Ch
21:3 Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as
they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants?
Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt
to Israel?
1Ch
21:4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore
Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
1Ch
21:5 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David.
All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who
drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who
drew sword.
1Ch
21:6 But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the
king's word was abominable to Joab.
1Ch
21:7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
1Ch
21:8 David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done
this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
1Ch
21:9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
1Ch
21:10 Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you
three things: choose one of them, that I may do it to you.
1Ch
21:11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take
your choice:
1Ch
21:12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed
before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or
else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and
the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel.
Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
1Ch
21:13 David said to Gad, I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into
the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not
fall into the hand of man.
1Ch
21:14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of
Israel seventy thousand men.
1Ch
21:15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was
about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and
said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The
angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the
Jebusite.
1Ch
21:16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing
between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched
out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth,
fell on their faces.
1Ch
21:17 David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be
numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but
these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my
God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against
your people, that they should be plagued.
1Ch
21:18 Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that
David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1Ch
21:19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name
of Yahweh.
1Ch
21:20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who
were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
1Ch
21:21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went
out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face
to the ground.
1Ch
21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing
floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full
price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be stopped from
afflicting the people.
1Ch
21:23 Ornan said to David, Take it for yourself, and let my lord the
king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give you
the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood,
and the wheat for the meal offering; I give it all.
1Ch
21:24 King David said to Ornan, No; but I will most certainly buy it
for the full price: for I will not take that which is yours for
Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost.
1Ch
21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of
gold by weight.
1Ch
21:26 David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered
him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
1Ch
21:27 Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into
its sheath.
1Ch
21:28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in
the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
1Ch
21:29 For the tabernacle of Yahweh, which Moses made in the
wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the
high place at Gibeon.
1Ch
21:30 But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was
afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.
July
20
1
Chronicles 22-23
1Ch
22:1 Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is
the altar of burnt offering for Israel.
1Ch
22:2 David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in
the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build
the house of God.
1Ch
22:3 David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of
the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without
weight;
1Ch
22:4 and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of
Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.
1Ch
22:5 David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house
that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of
fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make
preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
1Ch
22:6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build
a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1Ch
22:7 David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to
build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
1Ch
22:8 But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, You have shed blood
abundantly, and have made great wars: you shall not build a house to
my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
1Ch
22:9 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest;
and I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his
name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel
in his days:
1Ch
22:10 he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son,
and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his
kingdom over Israel for ever.
1Ch
22:11 Now, my son, Yahweh be with you; and prosper you, and build
the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
1Ch
22:12 May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you
in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
1Ch
22:13 Then you shall prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and
the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong,
and of good courage. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.
1Ch
22:14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of
Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, and one million talents
of silver, and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in
abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and you may add to
them.
1Ch
22:15 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and
workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in
every kind of work:
1Ch
22:16 of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is
no number. Arise and be doing, and Yahweh be with you.
1Ch
22:17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon
his son, saying,
1Ch
22:18 Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on
every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my
hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
1Ch
22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your
God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring
the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into
the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.
1Ch
23:1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son
king over Israel.
1Ch
23:2 He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the
priests and the Levites.
1Ch
23:3 The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and
their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
1Ch
23:4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the
house of Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges;
1Ch
23:5 and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised
Yahweh with the instruments which I made, said
David, for giving praise.
1Ch
23:6 David divided them into divisions according to the sons of
Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1Ch
23:7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
1Ch
23:8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel,
three.
1Ch
23:9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three.
These were the heads of the fathers' houses
of Ladan.
1Ch
23:10 The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These
four were the sons of Shimei.
1Ch
23:11 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and
Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house
in one reckoning.
1Ch
23:12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
1Ch
23:13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated,
that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons,
forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to
bless in his name, forever.
1Ch
23:14 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the
tribe of Levi.
1Ch
23:15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
1Ch
23:16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
1Ch
23:17 The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had
no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
1Ch
23:18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
1Ch
23:19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second,
Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
1Ch
23:20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
1Ch
23:21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli:
Eleazar and Kish.
1Ch
23:22 Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their
brothers the sons of Kish took them to
wife.
1Ch
23:23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
1Ch
23:24 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even
the heads of the fathers' houses of those who were counted
individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work
for the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and
upward.
1Ch
23:25 For David said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to
his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever:
1Ch
23:26 and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the
tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.
1Ch
23:27 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered,
from twenty years old and upward.
1Ch
23:28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the
service of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and in the chambers,
and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service
of the house of God;
1Ch
23:29 for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal
offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in
the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure
and size;
1Ch
23:30 and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and
likewise in the evening;
1Ch
23:31 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths,
on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the
ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;
1Ch
23:32 and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, and
the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their
brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
Jul. 19
Acts 12
Act
12:1 Now about that time, Herod the king stretched out his hands to
oppress some of the assembly.
Act
12:2 He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
Act
12:3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize
Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
Act
12:4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered
him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to
bring him out to the people after the Passover.
Act
12:5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was
made by the assembly to God for him.
Act
12:6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was
sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front
of the door kept the prison.
Act
12:7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light
shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up,
saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his
hands.
Act
12:8 The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your
sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak,
and follow me."
Act
12:9 And he went out and followed him. He didn't know that what was
being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
Act
12:10 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came
to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by
itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the
angel departed from him.
Act
12:11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly
know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the
hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."
Act
12:12 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother
of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and
were praying.
Act
12:13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda
came to answer.
Act
12:14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate
for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of
the gate.
Act
12:15 They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted
that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."
Act
12:16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw
him, and were amazed.
Act
12:17 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared
to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said,
"Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." Then he
departed, and went to another place.
Act
12:18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
soldiers about what had become of Peter.
Act
12:19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he
examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death.
He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
Act
12:20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon.
They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the
king's personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because
their country depended on the king's country for food.
Act
12:21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing,
sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
Act
12:22 The people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of a
man!"
Act
12:23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't
give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Act
12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
Act
12:25 Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, when they had
fulfilled their service, also taking with them John whose surname was
Mark.
Jul.
20
Acts 13
Act
13:1 Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some
prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius
of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Act
13:2 As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said,
"Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have
called them."
Act
13:3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on
them, they sent them away.
Act
13:4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to
Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.
Act
13:5 When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in
the Jewish synagogues. They had also John as their attendant.
Act
13:6 When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a
certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,
Act
13:7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of
understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to
hear the word of God.
Act
13:8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation)
withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.
Act
13:9 But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit,
fastened his eyes on him,
Act
13:10 and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of
the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to
pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Act
13:11 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be
blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately a mist and
darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by
the hand.
Act
13:12 Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being
astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
Act
13:13 Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to
Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to
Jerusalem.
Act
13:14 But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia.
They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.
Act
13:15 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of
the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any
word of exhortation for the people, speak."
Act
13:16 Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of
Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
Act
13:17 The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the
people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an
uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
Act
13:18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the
wilderness.
Act
13:19 When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he
gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred fifty
years.
Act
13:20 After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the
prophet.
Act
13:21 Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the
son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
Act
13:22 When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king,
to whom he also testified, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a
man after my heart, who will do all my will.'
Act
13:23 From this man's seed, God has brought salvation to Israel
according to his promise,
Act
13:24 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of
repentance to Israel.
Act
13:25 As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you
suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the
sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'
Act
13:26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among
you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
Act
13:27 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because
they didn't know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read
every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
Act
13:28 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate
to have him killed.
Act
13:29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about
him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
Act
13:30 But God raised him from the dead,
Act
13:31 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him
from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
Act
13:32 We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,
Act
13:33 that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that
he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You
are my Son. Today I have become your father.'
Act
13:34 "Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no
more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you
the holy and sure blessings of David.'
Act
13:35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow
your Holy One to see decay.'
Act
13:36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the
counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw
decay.
Act
13:37 But he whom God raised up saw no decay.
Act
13:38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man
is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
Act
13:39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things,
from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Act
13:40 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the
prophets:
Act
13:41 'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a
work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one
declares it to you.' "
Act
13:42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles
begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
Act
13:43 Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the
devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them,
urged them to continue in the grace of God.
Act
13:44 The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together
to hear the word of God.
Act
13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with
jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and
blasphemed.
Act
13:46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was
necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed
you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal
life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
Act
13:47 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you as a
light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the
uttermost parts of the earth.' "
Act
13:48 As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the
word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Act
13:49 The Lord's word was spread abroad throughout all the region.
Act
13:50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the
chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and
Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
Act
13:51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and
came to Iconium.
Act
13:52 The disciples were filled with joy with the Holy Spirit.
