²⁶ and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.”^(A)

¹⁶ Yet if any of you suffers as a Christian, do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God because you bear this name.^[a]

²⁸ Agrippa said to Paul, “Are you so quickly persuading me to become a Christian?”^(A)

¹⁴ If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory,^[a] which is the Spirit of God,^[b] is resting on you.^[c](A)

¹⁵ from whom every family^[a] in heaven and on earth takes its name.

²³ If, therefore, the entire church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your mind?^(A)

One Body with Many Members

¹² For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.^(A)

¹⁸ For, to begin with, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it.^(A)

¹⁷ For this reason I sent^[a] you Timothy, who is my beloved and trustworthy child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

²⁷ When they arrived, they called the church together and related all that God had done with them and how he had opened a door of faith for the gentiles.