I have surely heard Ephraim moaning, ‘You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined like an untrained calf. Take me back, so that I can return, for you, Lord, are my God.
Acts 3:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised God raised up his servant and sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition It was to you first that God sent His Servant and Son Jesus, when He raised Him up [provided and gave Him for us], to bless you in turning every one of you from your wickedness and evil ways. [Acts 2:24; 3:22.] American Standard Version (1901) Unto you first God, having raised up his Servant, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities. Common English Bible After God raised his servant, he sent him to you first—to bless you by enabling each of you to turn from your evil ways.” Catholic Public Domain Version God raised up his Son and sent him first to you, to bless you, so that each one may turn himself away from his wickedness." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version To you first God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless you; that every one may convert himself from his wickedness. |
I have surely heard Ephraim moaning, ‘You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined like an untrained calf. Take me back, so that I can return, for you, Lord, are my God.
She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.’
He replied, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’
and repentance for forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’
‘Brothers and sisters, children of Abraham’s race, and those among you who fear God, it is to us that the word of this salvation has been sent.
God raised him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by death.
Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to release him.
You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.
that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send Jesus, who has been appointed for you as the Messiah.
Moses said: The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you.
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring. ,
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, , because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.
I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
For I say that Christ became a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises to the fathers,
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing.
Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy,