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Acts 2:42

New Century Version

They spent their time learning the apostles’ teaching, sharing, breaking bread, and praying together.

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You should not stay away from the church meetings, as some are doing, but you should meet together and encourage each other. Do this even more as you see the day coming.

They all continued praying together with some women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and Jesus’ brothers.

We announce to you what we have seen and heard, because we want you also to have fellowship with us. Our fellowship is with God the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

But if we live in the light, as God is in the light, we can share fellowship with each other. Then the blood of Jesus, God’s Son, cleanses us from every sin.

The believers met together in the Temple every day. They ate together in their homes, happy to share their food with joyful hearts.

On the first day of the week, we all met together to break bread, and Paul spoke to the group. Because he was planning to leave the next day, he kept on talking until midnight.

Pray in the Spirit at all times with all kinds of prayers, asking for everything you need. To do this you must always be ready and never give up. Always pray for all God’s people.

But dear friends, use your most holy faith to build yourselves up, praying in the Holy Spirit.

Continue praying, keeping alert, and always thanking God.

This will happen if you continue strong and sure in your faith. You must not be moved away from the hope brought to you by the Good News that you heard. That same Good News has been told to everyone in the world, and I, Paul, help in preaching that Good News.

But you should continue following the teachings you learned. You know they are true, because you trust those who taught you.

You are like a building that was built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus himself is the most important stone in that building,

making the followers of Jesus stronger and helping them stay in the faith. They said, “We must suffer many things to enter God’s kingdom.”

Then we can continue to pray and to teach the word of God.”

After they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke God’s word without fear.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons also. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

Be joyful because you have hope. Be patient when trouble comes, and pray at all times.

But we are not those who turn back and are lost. We are people who have faith and are saved.

Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and full of faith. When he reached Antioch and saw how God had blessed the people, he was glad. He encouraged all the believers in Antioch always to obey the Lord with all their hearts, and many people became followers of the Lord.

I praise you because you remember me in everything, and you follow closely the teachings just as I gave them to you.

Then Paul went upstairs again, broke bread, and ate. He spoke to them a long time, until it was early morning, and then he left.

These enemies of Christ were in our fellowship, but they left us. They never really belonged to us; if they had been a part of us, they would have stayed with us. But they left, and this shows that none of them really belonged to us.

God, by his grace through Christ, called you to become his people. So I am amazed that you are turning away so quickly and believing something different than the Good News.

After Peter and John left the meeting of leaders, they went to their own group and told them everything the leading priests and the elders had said to them.

Then the two followers told what had happened on the road and how they recognized Jesus when he divided the bread.

When Jesus was at the table with them, he took some bread, gave thanks, divided it, and gave it to them.

Brothers and sisters, will it help you if I come to you speaking in different languages? No! It will help you only if I bring you a new truth or some new knowledge, or prophecy, or teaching.

I thank God for the help you gave me while I preached the Good News—help you gave from the first day you believed until now.




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