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Acts · read by Bob Hoekstra
42 verses, in order. Only the verses Bob read aloud are shown.
Acts 1
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In my first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach,Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World
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And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #3 - a God of Promise (New Testament)
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For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #3 - a God of Promise (New Testament)
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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #3 - a God of Promise (New Testament)
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After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #3 - a God of Promise (New Testament)
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"Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven."Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #3 - a God of Promise (New Testament)
Acts 2
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And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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He was delivered up by God's set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 2
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But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #09 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 1
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Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #09 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 1
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God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #09 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 1
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They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #1 - Nature, Purpose and Function
Acts 3
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You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #09 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 1
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You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #09 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 1
Acts 4
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While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #10 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 2
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greatly disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #10 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 2
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After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #2 - the Head and the Body
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With great power the apostles continued to give their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And abundant grace was upon them all.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #2 - the Head and the Body
Acts 5
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"We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name," he said. "Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man's blood."Read from NKJV · Husbands and Wives
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But Peter and the other apostles replied, "We must obey God rather than men.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #4 - Husbands and Wives
Acts 6
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and will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."Read from NKJV · Leaders of the Church
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This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, as well as Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.Read from NKJV · Leaders of the Church
Acts 7
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You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #14 - Characters of New Covenant Life & Service Part 2
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On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #14 - Characters of New Covenant Life & Service Part 2
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While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
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Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
Acts 8
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And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen's death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World
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Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World
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Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World
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But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World
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Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza."Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World
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So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World
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and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World
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Then Philip began with this very Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World
Acts 10
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We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #09 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 1
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God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #09 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 1
Acts 13
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Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.Read from NKJV · Strategic Leadership Issues
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While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."Read from NKJV · Strategic Leadership Issues
Acts 14
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When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #24 - Various Aspects of New Covenant Grace Part 2
Acts 20
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I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #4 - Unpopular Promises
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And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #2 - the Grace of God
Acts 21
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Leaving the next day, we went on to Caesarea and stayed at the home of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World