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Acts
8:26-40
Psalm
22:25-31
1
John 4:7-21
John
15:1-8
Acts
8:26-40
8:26 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go
toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to
Gaza." (This is a wilderness road.)
8:27
So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court
official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her
entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship
8:28
and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the
prophet Isaiah.
8:29
Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go over to this chariot and
join it."
8:30
So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah.
He asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
8:31
He replied, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And
he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him.
8:32
Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this:
"Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb
silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.
8:33
In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his
generation? For his life is taken away from the earth."
8:34
The eunuch asked Philip, "About whom, may I ask you, does the
prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?"
8:35
Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture, he
proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus.
8:36
As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and
the eunuch said, "Look, here is water! What is to prevent me
from being baptized?"
8:38
He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the
eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
8:39
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord
snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his
way rejoicing.
8:40
But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he was passing through
the region, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he
came to Caesarea.
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Psalm
22:25-31
22:25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows
I will pay before those who fear him.
22:26
The poor shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall
praise the LORD. May your hearts live forever!
22:27
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD; and
all the families of the nations shall worship before him.
22:28
For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
22:29
To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down; before
him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and I shall live for
him.
22:30
Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about
the Lord,
22:31
and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, saying that
he has done it.
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John 4:7-21
4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God;
everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
4:9
God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only
Son into the world so that we might live through him.
4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and
sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
4:11
Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one
another.
4:12
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us,
and his love is perfected in us.
4:13
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has
given us of his Spirit.
4:14
And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son
as the Savior of the world.
4:15
God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and
they abide in God.
4:16
So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is
love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in
them.
4:17
Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have
boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in
this world.
4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for
fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached
perfection in love.
4:19
We love because he first loved us.
4:20
Those who say, "I love God," and hate their brothers or
sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister
whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.
4:21
The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must
love their brothers and sisters also.
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John
15:1-8
15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower.
15:2
He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch
that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.
15:3
You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to
you.
15:4
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear
fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you
unless you abide in me.
15:5
I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I
in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
15:6
Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and
withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and
burned.
15:7
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever
you wish, and it will be done for you.
15:8
My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and
become my disciples.
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