Acts 13:2

World English Bible (2000)

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them."

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  • Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
  • Gal 1:15 : 15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,
  • 2 Tim 1:11 : 11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
  • 1 Cor 12:11 : 11 But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
  • Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
  • Acts 14:26 : 26 From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
  • Acts 8:29 : 29 The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot."
  • Acts 22:21 : 21 "He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"
  • Acts 16:6-7 : 6 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. 7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't allow them.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
  • Acts 10:19 : 19 While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men seek you.
  • Acts 10:30 : 30 Cornelius said, "Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
  • Acts 13:3 : 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
  • Num 8:11-14 : 11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh. 12 "The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites. 13 You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh. 14 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
  • Deut 10:8 : 8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
  • 1 Sam 2:11 : 11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.
  • 1 Chr 16:4 : 4 He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of Yahweh, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
  • 1 Chr 16:37-43 : 37 So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required; 38 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers; 39 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tabernacle of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon, 40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of Yahweh, which he commanded to Israel; 41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever; 42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate. 43 All the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.
  • Dan 9:3 : 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
  • Matt 6:16 : 16 "Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
  • Matt 9:14-15 : 14 Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?" 15 Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
  • Matt 9:38 : 38 Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest."
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
  • Luke 10:1 : 1 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.
  • Acts 6:4 : 4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."
  • Rom 10:15 : 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"
  • Rom 15:16 : 16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  • Gal 2:8-9 : 8 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles); 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
  • Eph 3:7 : 7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
  • Col 4:17 : 17 Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it."
  • 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • 2 Cor 6:5 : 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
  • 2 Tim 2:2 : 2 The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
  • 2 Tim 4:11 : 11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
  • Heb 5:4 : 4 Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

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