26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called (A)Christians.

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28 And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time would you persuade me to be (A)a Christian?”[a]

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  1. Acts 26:28 Or In a short time you would persuade me to act like a Christian!

16 Yet (A)if anyone suffers as a (B)Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God (C)in that name.

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18 I counsel you (A)to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and (B)white garments so that you may clothe yourself and (C)the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, (D)so that you may see.

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27 But (A)the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and (B)you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and (C)is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

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14 (A)If you are insulted (B)for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory[a] and of God rests upon you.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:14 Some manuscripts insert and of power

15 from whom (A)every family[a] in heaven and on earth is named,

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  1. Ephesians 3:15 Or from whom all fatherhood; the Greek word patria in verse 15 is closely related to the word for Father in verse 14

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

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One Body with Many Members

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

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18 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, (A)I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,[a]

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  1. 1 Corinthians 11:18 Or I believe a certain report

17 That is why (A)I sent[a] you Timothy, (B)my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ,[b] (C)as I teach them everywhere in every church.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 4:17 Or am sending
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:17 Some manuscripts add Jesus

27 And when they arrived and gathered the church together, (A)they declared all that God had done with them, and (B)how he had (C)opened (D)a door of faith to the Gentiles.

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23 And when they had (A)appointed (B)elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting (C)they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

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Barnabas and Saul Sent Off

13 Now there were in the church at Antioch (A)prophets and (B)teachers, (C)Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger,[a] Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of (D)Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, (E)the Holy Spirit said, (F)“Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul (G)for the work to which I have called them.”

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  1. Acts 13:1 Niger is a Latin word meaning black, or dark

27 Now in these days (A)prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

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22 The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

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20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists[a] also, (A)preaching the Lord Jesus.

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  1. Acts 11:20 Or Greeks (that is, Greek-speaking non-Jews)

And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, (A)a man full of faith and (B)of the Holy Spirit, and (C)Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, (D)a proselyte of Antioch.

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19 (A)Go therefore and (B)make disciples of (C)all nations, (D)baptizing them (E)in[a] (F)the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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  1. Matthew 28:19 Or into

15 You shall leave your name to (A)my chosen (B)for a curse,
    and the Lord God will put you to death,
    but his servants (C)he will call by another name,

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