We give thanks to God always concerning you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

constantly remembering your work of faith, labor of love, and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers,

[As for] the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

And if indeed the house should be worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it should not be worthy, let your peace return to you.

And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.

"He that receives you receives Me, and he that receives Me receives Him who sent Me.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added.

"Therefore immediately I sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now then we are all present before God, to hear all the things having been commanded you by God."

And the Jews, seeing the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and spoke against the things being said by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

Now when the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a dealer of purple cloth of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard us, whose heart The Lord opened to give heed to the things spoken by Paul.

and he brought them forth outside and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all those in his house.

And bringing them up into his house, he set a meal before them; and he rejoiced with his whole house, having believed in God.

And these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all readiness, each day examining the Scriptures [to see] whether these things might be so.

And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, "What does this seed-picker wish to say?" But others [said], "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we desire to know what these things might mean."

And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise nor disdain, but as an angel of God you received me, even as Christ Jesus.

to remember the words having been previously spoken by the holy prophets, and the commandment of your apostles of the Lord and Savior;

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and [he] in whom is My word [spoken] to him, let him tell My word truly. What is the chaff to the wheat? So are My words, says the Lord.

Behold, are not My words as fire? Says the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?

Now it came to pass, while the crowd pressed upon Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret,

"Now this is the parable: The seed is the word of God.

But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it."

But He said, "More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John,

On the coming Sabbath, almost all the city was assembled to hear the word of God.

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.

So then faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing by [the] word of God.

For the word of God is living and effectual, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

but the word of the LORD endures forever." Now this is the word which was proclaimed to you.

For we did not follow craftily devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but rather became eyewitnesses of His majesty.

And we heard this voice being uttered from heaven, when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture comes about [from] one's own interpretation,

For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, just as you know what kind [of men] we were among you for your sake.

so that you became patterns to all those who believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

For they themselves report about us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Sanctify them by Your truth; Your word is truth.

And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by [the] truth.

But thanks be to God, that though you used to be slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from [your] heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

And having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

which has come to you, just as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, just as also among you, from the day which you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;

For the word of God is living and effectual, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Exercising His will He begat us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.

as newborn babes, desire the genuine milk of the word, that by it you may grow,

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

because everything having been born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that has overcome the world--your faith.

Who is he that overcomes the world, if not he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?