so that y’all may become blameless and harmless, “children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation,” among whom you shine as lights in the world,
An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” Then he left them and departed.
After appointing a day for him, they came to his lodging in even larger numbers. He explained to them from morning until evening, testifying about the Empire of God, working to persuade them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.
Through Silvanus, our faithful sibling, as I consider him, I have written to y’all briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it, y’all!
But I don’t consider my life worth even a single mention. Instead I aim to finish my race and the deacon-work which I received from the Lord Jesus—to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
But y’all be watchful at all times, praying that y’all may be counted worthy to escape all that is about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Humanity.”
For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Humanity also will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
There are also many other things that Jesus did, and if they were all written down, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
but a young man named Eutychus who was sitting in the window, began sinking into a deep sleep. As Paul continued to speak, he was so weighed down by sleep that he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.