TSK · Acts 6:7

But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves.(The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.)

May your priests be clothed with integrity! May your loyal followers shout for joy!

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

But the magician Elymas(for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

In this way the word of the Lord continued to grow in power and to prevail.

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment as a criminal, but God’s message is not imprisoned!

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.