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the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.
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Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah,
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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
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How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
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As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are sluggards to those who send them.
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A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
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The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
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A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!
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Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
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The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.
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The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside! I’ll be killed in the public square!”
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I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
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A sluggard says, “There’s a lion in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!”
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As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.
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A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
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A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly.
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Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
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Your children have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, with the rebuke of your God.
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This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
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The Church in Antioch
Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews.
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Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.
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News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
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and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
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During this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
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Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.
