Tag: New Testament
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🌸 Paul’s Address at the Areopagus 🌻 “To the Unknown God”
📖 Acts 17:22–31 (NKJV) 📚 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23 for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore,…
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🌸 Some Mocked, Some Believed 🌻 “Faith in the Midst of Skepticism”
📖 Acts 17:32–34 (NKJV) 📚 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.” 33 So Paul departed from among them. 34 However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.…
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🌸 Paul at Athens 🌻 “Reasoning in the Marketplace”
📖 Acts 17:16–21 (NKJV) 📚 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols. 17 Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be…
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Journey to Berea
📖 Acts 17:10–15 (NKJV) 📚 10 Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether…
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🌸 Paul and Silas at Thessalonica 🌻 Acts 17:1–9
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise…
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🌸 Paul and Silas Released 🌻
📖 Acts 16:35–40 (NKJV) 📚 35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the officers, saying, “Let those men go.” 36 So the keeper of the prison reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.” 37 But Paul said to them, “They have…
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🌸 The Philippian Jailer Saved 🌻
📖 Acts 16:25–34 (NKJV) 📚 25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. 27 And the…
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🌸 Paul and Silas in Prison 🌻 Acts 16:16–24
16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17 This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us…
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✨Peter Defends God’s Work to the Brethren✨
📖 Scripture Reading (NKJV)✨ Acts 11:1–18 1 Now the apostles and brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. 2 And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him, 3 saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!” 4 But Peter explained it to them…
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✨ The Holy Spirit Falls on the Gentiles ✨
📖 Scripture Reading Acts 10:34–48 (NKJV) 34 Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. 35 But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him. 36 The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord…