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Acts 20:21

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I warned Jews and Greeks to change the way they think and act and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

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Peter answered them, “All of you must turn to God and change the way you think and act, and each of you must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins will be forgiven. Then you will receive the Holy Spirit as a gift.

When the others heard this, they had no further objections. They praised God by saying, “Then God has also led people who are not Jewish to turn to him so that they can change the way they think and act and have eternal life.”

But I don’t place any value on my own life. I want to finish the race I’m running. I want to carry out the mission I received from the Lord Jesus—the mission of testifying to the Good News of God’s kindness.

No! I can guarantee that they weren’t. But if you don’t turn to God and change the way you think and act, then you, too, will all die.

In fact, to be distressed in a godly way causes people to change the way they think and act and leads them to be saved. No one can regret that. But the distress that the world causes brings only death.

If you declare that Jesus is Lord, and believe that God brought him back to life, you will be saved.

You will open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan’s control to God’s. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and a share among God’s people who are made holy by believing in me.’

Scripture also says that by the authority of Jesus people would be told to turn to God and change the way they think and act so that their sins will be forgiven. This would be told to people from all nations, beginning in the city of Jerusalem.

Who wins the victory over the world? Isn’t it the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Instead, I spread the message that I first told to the ⌞Jewish⌟ people in Damascus and Jerusalem and throughout the whole country of Judea. I spread the same message to non-Jewish people. Both groups were expected to change the way they thought and acted and to turn to God. I told them to do things that prove they had changed their lives.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God. Everyone who loves the Father also loves his children.

I hear about your faithfulness to the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God’s people.

I, too, have heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God’s people. For this reason

I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live I live by believing in God’s Son, who loved me and took the punishment for my sins.

Now that we have God’s approval by faith, we have peace with God because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done.

but also for us. Our faith will be regarded as the basis of our approval by God—each of us who believe in the one who brought Jesus, our Lord, back to life.

I’m not ashamed of the Good News. It is God’s power to save everyone who believes, Jews first and Greeks as well.

“God overlooked the times when people didn’t know any better. But now he commands everyone everywhere to turn to him and change the way they think and act.

So the apostles went and told people that they should turn to God and change the way they think and act.

He said, “The time has come, and God’s kingdom is near. Change the way you think and act, and believe the Good News.”

From then on, Jesus began to tell people, “Turn to God and change the way you think and act, because the kingdom of heaven is near!”

But Scripture states that the whole world is controlled by the power of sin. Therefore, a promise based on faith in Jesus Christ could be given to those who believe.

Yet, we know that people don’t receive God’s approval by any effort to follow the laws in the Scriptures, but only by believing in Jesus Christ. So we also believed in Jesus Christ in order to receive God’s approval by faith in Christ and not by our own efforts. People won’t receive God’s approval by their own efforts.

Jews ask for miraculous signs, and Greeks look for wisdom,

Do you have contempt for God, who is very kind to you, puts up with you, and deals patiently with you? Don’t you realize that it is God’s kindness that is trying to lead you to him and change the way you think and act?

I have an obligation to those who are civilized and those who aren’t, to those who are wise and those who aren’t.

On a designated day a larger number of influential Jews ⌞than expected⌟ went to the place where Paul was staying. From morning until evening, Paul was explaining God’s kingdom to them. He was trying to convince them about Jesus from Moses’ Teachings and the Prophets.

They answered, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will be saved.”

In addition, all the prophets testify that people who believe in the one named Jesus receive forgiveness for their sins through him.”

After they had boldly spoken about the message of the Lord, they spread the Good News in many Samaritan villages on their way back to Jerusalem.

So change the way you think and act, and turn ⌞to God⌟ to have your sins removed.

Peter said much more to warn them. He urged, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”

But these miracles have been written so that you will believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that you will have life by believing in him.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, he will see God’s constant anger.”

So I can guarantee that God’s angels are happy about one person who turns to God and changes the way he thinks and acts.”

I can guarantee that there will be more happiness in heaven over one person who turns to God and changes the way he thinks and acts than over 99 people who already have turned to God and have his approval.”

No! I can guarantee that they weren’t. But if you don’t turn to God and change the way you think and act, then you, too, will all die.”

“Turn to God and change the way you think and act, because the kingdom of heaven is near.”

Although I’m absent from you physically, I’m with you in spirit. I’m happy to see how orderly you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.

Some days later Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and listened to him talk about faith in Christ Jesus.

All the Jews and Greeks living in the city of Ephesus heard about this. All of them were filled with awe for the name of the Lord Jesus and began to speak very highly about it.

I have five brothers. He can warn them so that they won’t end up in this place of torture.’

However, the Holy Spirit warns me in every city that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me.




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