Bible Verses About Select Readings

and it shall be, every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.

`Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified--ye did slay;

whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me--because He is on my right hand--that I may not be moved;

because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet--my flesh also shall rest on hope,

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.

`Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;

a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,

having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

`This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;

at the right hand then of God having been exalted--also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father--he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

till I make thy foes thy footstool;

assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him--this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'

And the chief priest said, `Are then these things so?'

and he said, `Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,

and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee.

`Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein ye now dwell,

and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him--he having no child.

`And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,

and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.

`And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob--the twelve patriarchs;

and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,