Now after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent to them, saying, "Men and brothers, if there is by you a word of encouragement for the people, speak."

The God of this people chose our fathers, and lifting up the people during their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm brought them out from it.

But Paul and Barnabas, speaking boldly said, "It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken to you first; but since you thrust it away, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life; behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."

Are not You the Lord that destroyed the inhabitants of this land before the face of Your people Israel, and gave it to Your beloved seed of Abraham forever?

[you] seed of Abraham, His servants, [you] children of Jacob, His elect.

He sends His word to Jacob, His ordinances and judgments to Israel.

He has not done so to any [other] nation; and He has not shown them His judgments.

But you, O Israel, are My servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, whom I have loved;

Hear these [words], you house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord God of Israel, making mention [of it, but] not with truth, nor with righteousness;

Hearken to Me, you that follow after righteousness, and seek the Lord; look to the solid rock, which you have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which you have dug.

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for he was alone when I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.

and do not think to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones.

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

And Paul, arising and motioning with his hand, said, "Men, Israelites, and you who fear God, listen:

And when the synagogue service was broken up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking [to them], persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

But in every nation, he that fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.

This girl, following after Paul and us, was crying out, saying, "These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation."

"Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it!"

I have brought near My righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from Me; I have given salvation in Zion to Israel for glory.

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

to give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins,

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes, both to the Jew first and to the Greek.

that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning their transgressions to them, and committing to us the word of this reconciliation.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

because of the hope being laid up for you in [the] heavens, in which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,