3 Then some people came bringing to him a paralytic, borne by four.
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Mark 2:3
Mark 6:7
7 Then he called together the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over impure spirits,
Acts 1:12-14
12 They then returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Olive Orchard, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey distant.
13 When they came into the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying. There were Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
14 All of these continued earnestly and unitedly in prayer with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.
John 17:20-21
Acts 15:1-41
1 BUT certain men came down from Judaea and undertook to teach the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
2 Since no little dissension and controversy arose between Paul and Barnabas and these men, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
3 So they were sent on by the church and passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles, which caused great joy to all the brethren.
4 On their arrival in Jerusalem they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they narrated all that God, working with them, had done.
5 Then some of the party of the Pharisees, who had become believers, rose and said, "We must circumcise them and tell them to keep the Law of Moses."
6 The apostles and elders met to confer about this matter.
7 After there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in early days God chose among you that through my mouth the Gentiles should hear the message of good news and should believe.
8 And God, who knows all hearts, bore witness to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.
9 He made no difference between us and them in cleansing their hearts by faith.
10 Now, therefore, why are you testing God by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
11 On the contrary we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus just as they are."
12 The whole assembly remained silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders that God had done through them among the Gentiles.
13 When they ceased speaking, James said, "Brethren, listen to me.
14 Symeon has told how first God graciously visited the Gentiles and took a people for his name.
15 With this the words of the prophets agree, as it is written,
16 'After this I will return and build up again the tent of David which has fallen down; yes, I will build up its ruins and erect it again,
17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles upon whom my name has been bestowed, says the Lord
18 who does these things foreknown from of old.'
19 Therefore I judge best not to trouble those of the Gentiles who have turned to God,
20 but to write to them to abstain from contamination with idols, and from unchastity, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
21 For Moses has had for generations past in every city those who preach him, for he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."
22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to select men from themselves and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, men esteemed among the brethren.
23 They wrote and sent by their hands the following letter: "The Apostles and the Brethren who are elders, to the Brethren from the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Greeting.
24 "Inasmuch as we have heard that certain persons from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, — men whom we did not authorize, —
25 it seemed good, after unanimous agreement, to select some men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26 who have exposed their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who will tell you orally the same things.
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no further burden than these necessary things:
29 to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from strangled things, and from unchastity. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farewell."
30 So they were sent away and went down to Antioch, where they called together the whole body and delivered over the letter.
31 On reading it they rejoiced over the encouragement.
32 Both Judas and Silas, being themselves prophets, encouraged and confirmed the brethren by long addresses.
33 After spending some time they were sent away with a message of peace from the brethren to those who had sent them.
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35 Paul and Barnabas stayed on in Antioch teaching and telling, in association with many others, the good news of the Lord's message.
36 After some time Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us go back and visit the brethren in every city in which we made known the Lord's message, and see how they are prospering."
37 Barnabas wished to take along John who was called Mark.
38 But Paul did not approve of taking him along, since he had left them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them into the work.
39 Such a difference of feeling resulted that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark and sailed away to Cyprus.
40 Paul selected Silas and left, after being commended to the grace of the Lord by the brethren.
41 They went through Syria and Cilicia strengthening the churches.
Romans 1:1-32
1 PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to bear the good news of God,
2 which he foretold through his prophets in Holy Scripture,
3 concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord (who became one of the descendants of David according to the flesh,
4 and was with power proved to be the Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead);
5 through whom we obtained grace and apostleship to promote obedience of faith for the sake of his name,
6 among all the Gentiles, among whom are you, called by Jesus Christ;
7 to all who are in Rome, beloved by God, called to be holy: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First of all I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is spoken of through all the world.
9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers
10 asking if I may somehow at some time by the will of God find the way open to come to you.
11 For I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift of grace in order that you may be strengthened,
12 that is, that I may be encouraged with you and by you through our mutual faith, yours and mine.
13 I am not willing that you should be ignorant, brethren, that often I have purposed to come to you (though until now I have been hindered), in order that I might have some fruit among you as among the other Gentiles.
14 I am a debtor to Greeks and to Barbarians, to wise men and to unthinking men;
15 so, for my part, I am eager to tell the good news also to you in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the good news. It is the power of God for salvation to every one who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
17 For a righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, as it is written, "He who is righteous by faith shall live."
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth but practice unrighteousness.
19 Because what may be known of God is manifest within them, for God has manifested it to them.
20 For God's invisible qualities — his everlasting power and deity — are, since the creation of the world, clearly seen, being known from what he has made. So they are without any excuse.
21 For although they knew God they did not glorify him as God and did not give him thanks, but fell into futile speculations and their stupid hearts were darkened.
22 Boasting of being wise, they became fools
23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into images of mortal man, and of birds and beasts and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over, in the lusts of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonor their bodies mutually.
25 They changed the truth of God into a lie, and reverenced and paid worship to the creature rather than to the Creator — who is blessed forever, Amen!
26 Therefore God gave them over to disgraceful passions. For their females changed the natural use for one contrary to nature,
27 and their males, leaving the natural use of the female, burned in their lust for one another, males with males practicing indecency and receiving in themselves the deserved penalty of their error.
28 And as they did not think fit to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them over to an abandoned mind, to do the things that are shameful,
29 filled with all injustice, wickedness, greed, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, fraud, malignant craftiness, whisperers,
30 slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 without common sense, without faithfulness, without family affection, without pity.
32 They know the just judgment of God that those who practice such things are worthy of death, yet they not only do them themselves, but are pleased with those who practice them.
1 Corinthians 14:40
40 Let all things be done becomingly and in order.
Ephesians 4:3
3 earnest in keeping the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Philippians 2:1-30
1 IF there is any encouragement in Christ, any persuasive power in love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any sympathies and compassions,
2 fill up my joy by having the same love, being of the same mind, thinking the same thing,
3 doing nothing in a partisan or vainglorious way, but each modestly regarding the others as of more account than himself.
4 Do not be each intent on his own interests, but also on the interests of others.
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not think that equality with God was something to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant and coming into the likeness of men,
8 and when found in the condition of a man he humbled himself by becoming obedient even to death — death on the cross.
9 Therefore, God has highly exalted him and has graciously given him the name which is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of beings in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 So then, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with reverence and awe.
13 For it is God who is working in you both the willing and the doing because of his kindness.
14 Do everything without murmurings or disputings
15 that you may be blameless and pure, children of God, spotless in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the world,
16 holding forth the message of life, so that on the day of Christ I can boast that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
17 But if I am poured out as a libation on your sacrificial offering of faith, I rejoice and share the joy of you all.
18 In the same way you must rejoice and share my joy.
19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I may be cheered by knowing about you.
20 For I have no one likeminded with him who will so sincerely care for your interests.
21 For all pursue their own aims, not those of Christ Jesus.
22 But you know how he has been tested and how like a child with a father he has served with me in spreading the good news.
23 So I hope to send him at once when I see how my affairs are going.
24 And I trust in the Lord that I myself shall come quickly.
25 I think it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my needs,
26 since he longs for you all and is troubled because you have heard that he was sick.
27 Indeed he was sick and near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I send him the more readily that you may see him and rejoice again and I be less sorrowful.
29 Receive him in the Lord with all joy and hold such men in honor,
30 because for the work of Christ he was near to death, hazarding his life to complete the service you were not here to do for me.