And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out from My Spirit upon all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams.

And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.

And in these days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Now in the church that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,

But having different gifts according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;

And God has placed some in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that works of power, then gifts of healing, helps, governings, tongues of nationalities.

Not everyone is an apostle are they? Not everyone is a prophet? Not everyone is a teacher? Not everyone is a worker of power?

But he who prophesies speaks to men for building up and exhortation and comfort.

Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern.

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

Do not despise prophecies.

And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must enter the kingdom of God through many afflictions.

After he had spent some time there, he departed and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

Now when he had passed through that region and encouraged them with many words, he came to Greece

he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with simplicity; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

as you know how we exhorted, and encouraged, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,

Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, uphold the weak, be longsuffering towards all.

Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.

Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,

Preach the Word. Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

Likewise exhort the young men to be of sound mind,

sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he who is in opposition may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live with sound mind, righteously, and godly in the present age,

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify a people for His own possession, zealous unto good works.

The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory about to be revealed:

By Silvanus, our faithful brother as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

Make the weak hands strong, and make the feeble knees secure.

Say to those of anxious heart, Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.

And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood to strengthen and protect him.)

who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ,

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the full true knowledge of the Son of God, to a complete man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.