Acts 2:42

New International Reader's Version

The believers studied what the apostles taught. They shared their lives together. They ate and prayed together.

Cross References

Luke 24:30

He joined them at the table. Then he took bread and gave thanks. He broke it and began to give it to them.

Luke 24:35

Then the two of them told what had happened to them on the way. They told how they had recognized Jesus when he broke the bread.

Acts 1:14

They all came together regularly to pray. The women joined them too. So did Jesus’ mother Mary and his brothers.

Acts 11:23

When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad. He told them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts.

Acts 14:22

There they helped the believers gain strength. They told them to remain faithful to what they had been taught. “We must go through many hard times to enter God’s kingdom,” they said.

Acts 2:46

Every day they met together in the temple courtyard. They ate meals together in their homes. Their hearts were glad and sincere.

Acts 20:11

Then Paul went upstairs again. He broke bread and ate with them. He kept on talking until daylight. Then he left.

Acts 20:7

On the first day of the week we met to break bread and eat together. Paul spoke to the people. He kept on talking until midnight because he planned to leave the next day.

Acts 4:23

Peter and John were allowed to leave. They went back to their own people. They reported everything the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Acts 4:31

After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. They were bold when they spoke God’s word.

Acts 6:4

Then we can give our attention to prayer and to teaching God’s word.”

Romans 12:12

When you hope, be joyful. When you suffer, be patient. When you pray, be faithful.

1 Corinthians 10:21

You can’t drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too. You can’t have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

1 Corinthians 11:2

I praise you for being faithful in remembering me. I also praise you for staying true to the teachings of the past. You have stayed true to them, just as I gave them to you.

1 Corinthians 14:6

Brothers and sisters, suppose I were to come to you and speak in other languages. What good would I be to you? None! I would need to come with new truth or knowledge. Or I would need to come with a prophecy or a teaching.

Galatians 1:6

I am amazed. You are so quickly deserting the one who chose you. He chose you to live in the grace that Christ has provided. You are turning to a different “good news.”

Ephesians 2:20

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

Ephesians 6:18

At all times, pray by the power of the Spirit. Pray all kinds of prayers. Be watchful, so that you can pray. Always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.

Philippians 1:5

I am happy because you have joined me in spreading the good news. You have done so from the first day until now.

Colossians 1:23

But you must keep your faith steady and firm. You must not move away from the hope the good news holds out to you. This is the good news that you heard. It has been preached to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, now serve the good news.

Colossians 4:2

Give a lot of time and effort to prayer. Always be watchful and thankful.

2 Timothy 3:14

But I want you to continue to follow what you have learned and are sure about. You know the people you learned it from.

Hebrews 10:25

And let us not give up meeting together. Some are in the habit of doing this. Instead, let us encourage one another with words of hope. Let us do this even more as you see Christ’s return approaching.

Hebrews 10:39

But we don’t belong to the people who pull back and are destroyed. We belong to the people who believe and are saved.

1 John 1:3

We announce to you what we have seen and heard. We do it so you can share life together with us. And we share life with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:7

But suppose we walk in the light, just as he is in the light. Then we share life with one another. And the blood of Jesus, his Son, makes us pure from all sin.

1 John 2:19

These enemies left our community of believers. They didn’t really belong to us. If they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But by leaving they showed that none of them belonged to us.

Jude 1:20

But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith. Let the Holy Spirit guide and help you when you pray.