You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord God will slay you; but his servants he will call by a different name.
Acts 11:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And when he had found him, he brought him back to Antioch. For a whole year they assembled together with and were guests of the church and instructed a large number of people; and in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians. American Standard Version (1901) and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that even for a whole year they were gathered together with the church, and taught much people; and that the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Common English Bible When he found him, he brought him to Antioch. They were there for a whole year, meeting with the church and teaching large numbers of people. It was in Antioch where the disciples were first labeled “Christians.” Catholic Public Domain Version And they were conversing there in the Church for an entire year. And they taught such a great multitude, that it was at Antioch that the disciples were first known by the name of Christian. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they conversed there in the church a whole year; and they taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first named Christians. |
You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord God will slay you; but his servants he will call by a different name.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said,
But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.
News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
And the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea;
But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city; and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.
strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they believed.
And when they arrived, they gathered the church together and declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
but when some were stubborn and disbelieved, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the hall of Tyrannus.
After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and having exhorted them took leave of them and departed for Macedonia.
and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time you think to make me a Christian!”
Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
And what they said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.
and took food and was strengthened. For several days he was with the disciples at Damascus.
Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him entreating him, “Please come to us without delay.”
For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it,
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.
If, therefore, the whole church assembles and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?
Therefore I sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
Is it not they who blaspheme the honorable name which was invoked over you?
If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
yet if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but under that name let him glorify God.
but the anointing which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him.
Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.