Quotes About Belief

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.

The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.

This man was listening to the words of Paul, who looked intently at him and saw that he had faith to be healed.

In a loud voice Paul called out, “Stand up on your feet!” And the man jumped up and began to walk.

Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.

On the contrary, we believe it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”

Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.

They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few leading women.

As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”

But some joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others who were with them.

Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his whole household believed in the Lord. And many of the Corinthians who heard the message believed and were baptized.

“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.

and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Now there were some itinerant Jewish exorcists who tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits. They would say, “I bind you by Jesus, whom Paul proclaims.”

Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.

About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way.