Bible Cross References
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Acts 1:8
But when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will be filled with power, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, in all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Acts 2:14-41
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Then Peter stood up with the other eleven apostles and in a loud voice began to speak to the crowd: "Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, listen to me and let me tell you what this means.
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These people are not drunk, as you suppose; it is only nine o'clock in the morning.
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Instead, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about:
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'This is what I will do in the last days, God says: I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and daughters will proclaim my message; your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams.
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Yes, even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will proclaim my message.
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I will perform miracles in the sky above and wonders on the earth below. There will be blood, fire, and thick smoke;
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the sun will be darkened, and the moon will turn red as blood, before the great and glorious Day of the Lord comes.
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And then, whoever calls out to the Lord for help will be saved.'
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"Listen to these words, fellow Israelites! Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him. You yourselves know this, for it happened here among you.
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In accordance with his own plan God had already decided that Jesus would be handed over to you; and you killed him by letting sinful men crucify him.
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But God raised him from death, setting him free from its power, because it was impossible that death should hold him prisoner.
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For David said about him, 'I saw the Lord before me at all times; he is near me, and I will not be troubled.
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And so I am filled with gladness, and my words are full of joy. And I, mortal though I am, will rest assured in hope,
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because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead; you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.
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You have shown me the paths that lead to life, and your presence will fill me with joy.'
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"My friends, I must speak to you plainly about our famous ancestor King David. He died and was buried, and his grave is here with us to this very day.
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He was a prophet, and he knew what God had promised him: God had made a vow that he would make one of David's descendants a king, just as David was.
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David saw what God was going to do in the future, and so he spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah when he said, 'He was not abandoned in the world of the dead; his body did not rot in the grave.'
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God has raised this very Jesus from death, and we are all witnesses to this fact.
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He has been raised to the right side of God, his Father, and has received from him the Holy Spirit, as he had promised. What you now see and hear is his gift that he has poured out on us.
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For it was not David who went up into heaven; rather he said, 'The Lord said to my Lord: Sit here at my right side
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until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet.'
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"All the people of Israel, then, are to know for sure that this Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one that God has made Lord and Messiah!"
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When the people heard this, they were deeply troubled and said to Peter and the other apostles, "What shall we do, brothers?"
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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.
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For God's promise was made to you and your children, and to all who are far away---all whom the Lord our God calls to himself."
40
Peter made his appeal to them and with many other words he urged them, saying, "Save yourselves from the punishment coming on this wicked people!"
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Many of them believed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people were added to the group that day.
Acts 3:12-26
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When Peter saw the people, he said to them, "Fellow Israelites, why are you surprised at this, and why do you stare at us? Do you think that it was by means of our own power or godliness that we made this man walk?
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The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has given divine glory to his Servant Jesus. But you handed him over to the authorities, and you rejected him in Pilate's presence, even after Pilate had decided to set him free.
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He was holy and good, but you rejected him, and instead you asked Pilate to do you the favor of turning loose a murderer.
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You killed the one who leads to life, but God raised him from death---and we are witnesses to this.
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It was the power of his name that gave strength to this lame man. What you see and know was done by faith in his name; it was faith in Jesus that has made him well, as you can all see.
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"And now, my friends, I know that what you and your leaders did to Jesus was due to your ignorance.
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God announced long ago through all the prophets that his Messiah had to suffer; and he made it come true in this way.
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Repent, then, and turn to God, so that he will forgive your sins. If you do,
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times of spiritual strength will come from the Lord, and he will send Jesus, who is the Messiah he has already chosen for you.
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He must remain in heaven until the time comes for all things to be made new, as God announced through his holy prophets of long ago.
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For Moses said, 'The Lord your God will send you a prophet, just as he sent me, and he will be one of your own people. You are to obey everything that he tells you to do.
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Anyone who does not obey that prophet shall be separated from God's people and destroyed.'
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And all the prophets who had a message, including Samuel and those who came after him, also announced what has been happening these days.
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The promises of God through his prophets are for you, and you share in the covenant which God made with your ancestors. As he said to Abraham, 'Through your descendants I will bless all the people on earth.'
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And so God chose his Servant and sent him to you first, to bless you by making every one of you turn away from your wicked ways."
Acts 4:4
But many who heard the message believed; and the number grew to about five thousand.
Acts 5:12-16
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Many miracles and wonders were being performed among the people by the apostles. All the believers met together in Solomon's Porch.
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Nobody outside the group dared join them, even though the people spoke highly of them.
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But more and more people were added to the group---a crowd of men and women who believed in the Lord.
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As a result of what the apostles were doing, sick people were carried out into the streets and placed on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
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And crowds of people came in from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing those who were sick or who had evil spirits in them; and they were all healed.
Acts 8:17
Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
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Galatians 3:5
Does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you because you do what the Law requires or because you hear the gospel and believe it?
Acts 9:15
The Lord said to him, "Go, because I have chosen him to serve me, to make my name known to Gentiles and kings and to the people of Israel.
Acts 13:2-11
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While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, to do the work to which I have called them."
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They fasted and prayed, placed their hands on them, and sent them off.
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Having been sent by the Holy Spirit, Barnabas and Saul went to Seleucia and sailed from there to the island of Cyprus.
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When they arrived at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues. They had John Mark with them to help in the work.
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They went all the way across the island to Paphos, where they met a certain magician named Bar-Jesus, a Jew who claimed to be a prophet.
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He was a friend of the governor of the island, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor called Barnabas and Saul before him because he wanted to hear the word of God.
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But they were opposed by the magician Elymas (that is his name in Greek), who tried to turn the governor away from the faith.
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Then Saul---also known as Paul---was filled with the Holy Spirit; he looked straight at the magician
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and said, "You son of the Devil! You are the enemy of everything that is good. You are full of all kinds of evil tricks, and you always keep trying to turn the Lord's truths into lies!
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The Lord's hand will come down on you now; you will be blind and will not see the light of day for a time." At once Elymas felt a dark mist cover his eyes, and he walked around trying to find someone to lead him by the hand.
Acts 14:3-11
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The apostles stayed there for a long time, speaking boldly about the Lord, who proved that their message about his grace was true by giving them the power to perform miracles and wonders.
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The people of the city were divided: some were for the Jews, others for the apostles.
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Then some Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, decided to mistreat the apostles and stone them.
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When the apostles learned about it, they fled to the cities of Lystra and Derbe in Lycaonia and to the surrounding territory.
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There they preached the Good News.
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In Lystra there was a crippled man who had been lame from birth and had never been able to walk.
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He sat there and listened to Paul's words. Paul saw that he believed and could be healed, so he looked straight at him
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and said in a loud voice, "Stand up straight on your feet!" The man jumped up and started walking around.
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When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they started shouting in their own Lycaonian language, "The gods have become like men and have come down to us!"
Acts 15:12
The whole group was silent as they heard Barnabas and Paul report all the miracles and wonders that God had performed through them among the Gentiles.
Acts 19:11
God was performing unusual miracles through Paul.
Acts 19:12
Even handkerchiefs and aprons he had used were taken to the sick, and their diseases were driven away, and the evil spirits would go out of them.
Acts 19:26
Now, you can see and hear for yourselves what this fellow Paul is doing. He says that hand-made gods are not gods at all, and he has succeeded in convincing many people, both here in Ephesus and in nearly the whole province of Asia.
Acts 21:19
Paul greeted them and gave a complete report of everything that God had done among the Gentiles through his work.
Acts 22:21
'Go,' the Lord said to me, 'for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.' "
Acts 26:17
I will rescue you from the people of Israel and from the Gentiles to whom I will send you.
Acts 26:18
You are to open their eyes and turn them from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan to God, so that through their faith in me they will have their sins forgiven and receive their place among God's chosen people.'
1 Corinthians 1:5-7
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For in union with Christ you have become rich in all things, including all speech and all knowledge.
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The message about Christ has become so firmly established in you
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that you have not failed to receive a single blessing, as you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.
1 Corinthians 9:2
Even if others do not accept me as an apostle, surely you do! Because of your life in union with the Lord you yourselves are proof of the fact that I am an apostle.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by God's grace I am what I am, and the grace that he gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me.
2 Corinthians 11:4
For you gladly tolerate anyone who comes to you and preaches a different Jesus, not the one we preached; and you accept a spirit and a gospel completely different from the Spirit and the gospel you received from us!
2 Corinthians 11:5
I do not think that I am the least bit inferior to those very special so-called "apostles" of yours!
Colossians 1:29
To get this done I toil and struggle, using the mighty strength which Christ supplies and which is at work in me.