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Chapter 23:12-35 (ESV)

September 17, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 23:12-35 (ESV) - When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 22:30-23:11 (ESV)

September 16, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 22:30-23:11 (ESV) - But on the next day, desiring to know the real reason why he was being accused by the Jews, he unbound him and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 22:23-29 (ESV)

September 15, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 22:23-29 (ESV) - And as they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 21:40-22:22 (ESV)

September 14, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 21:40-22:22 (ESV) - And when he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the steps, motioned with his hand to the people. And when there was a great hush, he addressed them in the…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 21:27-39 (ESV)

September 13, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 21:27-39 (ESV) - When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him, crying out, “Men of Israel,…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 21:20b-26 (ESV)

September 12, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 21:20b-26 (ESV) - And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law, and they have been…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 21:15-20a (ESV)

September 11, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 21:15-20a (ESV) - After these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem. And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 21:1-14 (ESV)

September 10, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 21:1-14 (ESV) - And when we had parted from them and set sail, we came by a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. And having found a ship crossing…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 20:17-38 (ESV)

September 09, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 20:17-38 (ESV) - Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 20:1-16 (ESV)

September 08, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 20:1-16 (ESV) - After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. When he had gone through those regions and had…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 19:21-41 (ESV)

September 07, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 19:21-41 (ESV) - Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 19:13-20 (ESV)

September 06, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 19:13-20 (ESV) -  Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 19:8-12 (ESV)

September 05, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 19:8-12 (ESV) - And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God. But when some became stubborn and continued in…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 19:1-7 (ESV)

September 04, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 19:1-7 (ESV) - And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 18:24-28 (ESV)

September 03, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 18:24-28 (ESV) - Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 18:12-23 (ESV)

September 02, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 18:12-23 (ESV) -  But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal, saying, “This man is persuading people to…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 18:1-11 (ESV)

September 01, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 18:1-11 (ESV) - After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 17:30-34 (ESV)

August 31, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 17:30-34 (ESV) -  “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 17:24-29 (ESV)

August 30, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 17:24-29 (ESV) - The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 17:22-23 (ESV)

August 29, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 17:22-23 (ESV) - So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 17:16-21 (ESV)

August 28, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 17:16-21 (ESV) - Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 17:1-15 (ESV)

August 27, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 17:1-15 (ESV) - Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 16:35-40 (ESV)

August 26, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 16:36-40 (ESV) - But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.” And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 16:25-34 (ESV)

August 25, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 16:25-34 (ESV) - About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 16:16-24 (ESV)

August 24, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 16:16-24 (ESV) - As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 16:6-15 (ESV)

August 23, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 16:6-15 (ESV) - And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 16:1-5 (ESV)

August 22, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 16:1-5 (ESV) - Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 15:36-41 (ESV)

August 21, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 15:36-41 (ESV) - And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”…

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Chapter 15:22-35 (ESV)

August 20, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 15:22-35 (ESV) - Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas…

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Chapter 15:6-21 (ESV)

August 19, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 15:6-21 (ESV) - The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 15:1-5 (ESV)

August 18, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 15:1-5 (ESV) - But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 14:19-28 (ESV)

August 17, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 14:19-28 (ESV) - But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. But when the…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 14:8-18 (ESV)

August 16, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 14:8-18 (ESV) - Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 13:44-14:7 (ESV)

August 15, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 13:44-14:7 (ESV) - The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 13:32-43 (ESV)

August 14, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 13:32-43 (ESV) - And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 13:13-31 (ESV)

August 13, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 13:13-31 (ESV) - Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem, but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch…

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Chapter 13:6-12 (ESV)

August 12, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 13:6-12 (ESV) - When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus. He was with the proconsul, Sergius…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 13:4-5 (ESV)

August 11, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 13:4-5 (ESV) - So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 12:25-13-3 (ESV)

August 10, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 12:25-13:3 (ESV) - And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had completed their service, bringing with them John, whose other name was Mark. Now there were in the church at…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 12:18-24 (ESV)

August 09, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 12:18-24 (ESV) - Now when day came, there was no little disturbance among the soldiers over what had become of Peter. And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 12:6-17 (ESV)

August 08, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 12:6-17 (ESV) -  Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 12:1-5 (ESV)

August 07, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 12:1-5 (ESV) - About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword, and when he saw that it pleased the…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 11:27-30 (ESV)

August 06, 2025  - By
Chapter 11:27-30 (ESV) - Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 11:19-26 (ESV)

August 05, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 11:19-26 (ESV) - Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 11:1-18 (ESV)

August 04, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 11:1-18 (ESV) - Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 10:44-48 (ESV)

August 03, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 10:44-48 (ESV) - While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 10:34-43 (ESV)

August 02, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 10:34-43 (ESV) - So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 10:23-33 (ESV)

August 01, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 10:23-33 (ESV) - The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him. And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 10:9-23 (ESV)

July 31, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 10:9-23 (ESV) - The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 10:1-8 (ESV)

July 30, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 10:1-8 (ESV) - At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 9:32-43 (ESV)

July 29, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 9:32-43 (ESV) - Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 9:19-31 (ESV)

July 28, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 9:19-31 (ESV) - For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus. And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.” And all who heard him…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 9:10-19 (ESV)

July 27, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 9:10-19 (ESV) - Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.” And the Lord said to…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 9:1-9 (ESV)

July 26, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 9:1-9 (ESV) - But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 8:26-40 (ESV)

July 25, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 8:26-40 (ESV) - Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. And he rose and…

© Laura Haverkamp

Chapter 8:18-25 (ESV)

July 24, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 8:18-25 (ESV) - Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 8:9-17 (ESV)

July 23, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 8:9-17 (ESV) - But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid…

© Kris Gerbrandt

Chapter 8:1-8 (ESV)

July 22, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 8:1-8 (ESV) - And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea…

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 7:54-60 (ESV)

July 21, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 7:54-60 (ESV) - Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 7:1-53 (ESV)

July 20, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 7:1-53 (ESV) - And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was…

© John Yerkes (whatyousee.kc)

Chapter 6:8-15 (ESV)

July 19, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 6:8-15 (ESV) - And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and…

© Ken Bengtson

Chapter 6:1-7 (ESV)

July 18, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 6:1-7 (ESV) - Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 5:27-42 (ESV)

July 17, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 5:27-42 (ESV) - The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,”…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 5:21-26 (ESV)

July 16, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 5:21-26 (ESV) - At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together…

© Ken Bengtson

Chapter 5:12-20 (ESV)

July 15, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 5:12-20 (ESV) - The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade. No one else dared join them, even…

© Ken Bengtson

Chapter 4:36-5:11 (ESV)

July 14, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 4:36-5:11 (ESV) - Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”), sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at…

© Ken Bengtson

Chapter 4:23-35 (ESV)

July 13, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 4:23-35 (ESV) - On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard this, they raised…

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 4:15-22 (ESV)

July 12, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 4:15-22 (ESV) - But when they had commanded them to leave the council, they conferred with one another, saying, “What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been…

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 4:5-14 (ESV)

July 11, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 4:5-14 (ESV) -  On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of…

© John Yerkes

Chapter 4:1-4 (ESV)

July 10, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 4:1-4 (ESV) - And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 3:12-26 (ESV)

July 09, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 3:11-26 (ESV) - While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's. And when Peter saw it he addressed the people:…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 3:1-10 (ESV)

July 08, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 3:1-10 (ESV) - Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the…

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 2:42-47 (ESV)

July 07, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 2:42-47 (ESV) - And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs…

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 2:33-41 (ESV)

July 06, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 2:33-41 (ESV) - Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing…

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 2:22-32 (ESV)

July 05, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 2:22-32 (ESV) - “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as…

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 2:12-21 (ESV)

July 04, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 2:12-21 (ESV) - And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.” But Peter,

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 2:1-11 (ESV)

July 03, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 2:1-11 (ESV) - When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house…

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 1:20-26 (ESV)

July 02, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 1:20-26 (ESV) - “For it is written in the Book of Psalms, “‘May his camp become desolate,    and let there be no one to dwell in it’; and “‘Let

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 1:15-19 (ESV)

July 01, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 1:15-19 (ESV) - In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said, “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy…

© Chris LaBelle

Chapter 1:12-14 (ESV)

June 30, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 1:12-14 (ESV) - Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. And when they had entered, they went up to the upper…

© Bonnie LaBelle

Chapter 1:1-11 (ESV)

June 29, 2025  - By Chris LaBelle
Chapter 1:1-11 (ESV) - In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit…