Acts
4:5-12
Psalm 23
1 John 3:16-24
John 10:11-18
4:5
The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in
Jerusalem,
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with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and
all who were of the high-priestly family.
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When they had made the prisoners stand in their midst, they
inquired, "By what power or by what name did you do
this?"
4:8
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them,
"Rulers of the people and elders,
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if we are questioned today because of a good deed done to
someone who was sick and are asked how this man has been healed,
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let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel,
that this man is standing before you in good health by the name
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised
from the dead.
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This Jesus is 'the stone that was rejected by you, the builders;
it has become the cornerstone.'
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There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name
under heaven given among mortals by which we must be
saved."
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23:1
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.
23:2
He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still
waters;
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he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name's
sake.
23:4
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil;
for you are with me; your rod and your staff-- they comfort me.
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You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you
anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
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Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD my whole life
long.
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3:16
We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us--and we
ought to lay down our lives for one another.
3:17
How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods
and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?
3:18
Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in
truth and action.
3:19
And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will
reassure our hearts before him
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whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our
hearts, and he knows everything.
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Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness
before God;
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and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his
commandments and do what pleases him.
3:23
And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name
of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has
commanded us.
3:24
All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in
them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit
that he has given us.
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10:11
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his
life for the sheep.
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The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the
sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs
away--and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
10:13
The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for
the sheep.
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I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
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just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay
down my life for the sheep.
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I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring
them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be
one flock, one shepherd.
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For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life
in order to take it up again.
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No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I
have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again.
I have received this command from my Father."
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