JOB 42 : 5
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees you.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees you.
Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
I will also speak of your statutes before kings, And will not be disappointed.
Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness.
He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, But don't understand; And you see indeed, But don't perceive.'
They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.
But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
Then he charged the disciples that they should tell no one that he is Jesus the Christ.
This Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.
Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."
He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
The farmer sows the word.
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.
He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
They went out and preached that people should repent.
He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.
But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"
She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
They went away and told it to the rest. They didn't believe them, either.
He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to the whole creation.
They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.
When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"
But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."
He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ{"Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean "Anointed One".}).
But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
It happened in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe.
But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.{TR adds "Christ"}
Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
Agrippa said to Paul, "With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?"
Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."
through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
so that it became evident to the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;
but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Gospel.
You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
But we were gentle among of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children.
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.