Then Philip began to speak; starting from this passage of scripture, he told him the Good News about Jesus.

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Peter said to them, "Each one of you must turn away from your sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins will be forgiven; and you will receive God's gift, the Holy Spirit.

Many of them believed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people were added to the group that day.

One of those who heard us was Lydia from Thyatira, who was a dealer in purple cloth. She was a woman who worshiped God, and the Lord opened her mind to pay attention to what Paul was saying.

After she and the people of her house had been baptized, she invited us, "Come and stay in my house if you have decided that I am a true believer in the Lord." And she persuaded us to go.

They answered, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved---you and your family."

At that very hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; and he and all his family were baptized at once.

Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

He said to them, "Go throughout the whole world and preach the gospel to all people.

For it is by our faith that we are put right with God; it is by our confession that we are saved.

which was a symbol pointing to baptism, which now saves you. It is not the washing off of bodily dirt, but the promise made to God from a good conscience. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

For forty days after his death he appeared to them many times in ways that proved beyond doubt that he was alive. They saw him, and he talked with them about the Kingdom of God.

But other believers, who were from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and proclaimed the message to Gentiles also, telling them the Good News about the Lord Jesus.

To Jews and Gentiles alike I gave solemn warning that they should turn from their sins to God and believe in our Lord Jesus.

"I have gone about among all of you, preaching the Kingdom of God. And now I know that none of you will ever see me again.

He preached about the Kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ, speaking with all boldness and freedom.

Then he sent them out to preach the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick,

Jesus answered, "Let the dead bury their own dead. You go and proclaim the Kingdom of God."

But more and more people were added to the group---a crowd of men and women who believed in the Lord.

In our life in the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

So there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and free people, between men and women; you are all one in union with Christ Jesus.