and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear that name.
Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as
The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it
When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had ope
So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers
from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in
First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed
When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
In those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in w
But some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks as well, proclaiming the
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (
You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He wi
This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, as well as Philip