^13 (A)The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, ^(B)glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you ^(C)delivered up and ^(D)denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. ¹⁴ But you denied ^(E)the Holy One ^(F)and the Just, and ^(G)asked for a murderer to be granted to you, ¹⁵ and killed the ^[a]Prince of life, ^(H)whom God raised from the dead, ^(I)of which we are witnesses. ^16 (J)And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

¹⁷ “Yet now, brethren, I know that ^(K)you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. ¹⁸ But ^(L)those things which God foretold ^(M)by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. ^19 (N)Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, ²⁰ and that He may send ^[b]Jesus Christ, who was ^[c]preached to you before, ^21 (O)whom heaven must receive until the times of ^(P)restoration of all things, ^(Q)which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since ^[d]the world began. ²² For Moses truly said to the fathers, ^(R)‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. ²³ And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ ²⁴ Yes, and ^(S)all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also ^[e]foretold these days. ^25 (T)You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ^(U)‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ ²⁶ To you ^(V)first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, ^(W)in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”

³⁵ “This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ^(A)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer ^(B)by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush. ^36 (C)He brought them out, after he had ^(D)shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, ^(E)and in the Red Sea, ^(F)and in the wilderness forty years.

Israel Rebels Against God

³⁷ “This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ^(G)‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. ^(H)Him^[a] you shall hear.’

^38 (I)“This is he who was in the ^[b]congregation in the wilderness with ^(J)the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, ^(K)the one who received the living ^(L)oracles^[c] to give to us, ³⁹ whom our fathers ^(M)would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, ^40 (N)saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ ^41 (O)And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and ^(P)rejoiced in the works of their own hands. ⁴² Then ^(Q)God turned and gave them up to worship ^(R)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:

God’s True Tabernacle

⁴⁴ “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses ^(U)to make it according to the pattern that he had seen, ^45 (V)which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, ^(W)whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the ^(X)days of David, ^46 (Y)who found favor before God and ^(Z)asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob. ^47 (AA)But Solomon built Him a house.

⁴⁸ “However, ^(AB)the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

⁵¹ “You ^(AE)stiff-necked^[d] and ^(AF)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. ^52 (AG)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of ^(AH)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, ^53 (AI)who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”

Immorality Must Be Judged

⁹ I wrote to you in my epistle ^(A)not to ^[a]keep company with sexually immoral people. ¹⁰ Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go ^(B)out of the world. ¹¹ But now I have written to you not to keep company ^(C)with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—^(D)not even to eat with such a person.

¹² For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? ¹³ But those who are outside God judges. Therefore ^(E)“put away from yourselves the evil person.”

Honor the Elders

¹⁷ Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine. ¹⁸ For the Scripture says, ^(A)“You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,” and, ^(B)“The laborer is worthy of his wages.” ¹⁹ Do not receive an accusation against an elder except ^(C)from two or three witnesses. ²⁰ Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.

²¹ I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the ^[a]elect angels that you observe these things without ^(D)prejudice, doing nothing with partiality. ²² Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor ^(E)share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.

²⁸ Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three ^(A)witnesses. ^29 (B)Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, ^(C)counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, ^(D)and insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know Him who said, ^(E)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” ^[a]says the Lord. And again, ^(F)“The Lord will judge His people.” ^31 (G)It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.