he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.

And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John,

Peter Reports to the Church

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

But the word of God increased and multiplied.

When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,

Or was it from you that the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached?

and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.