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he is not to honor his father or mother.' And by this you have invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

thereby invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that."

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.

Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret;

"Now this is the parable: the seed is the word of God.

But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it."

But He said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and follow it."

"If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be nullified),

And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, "It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

The word of God kept spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John,

Now the apostles and the brothers and sisters who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

When they reached Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper.

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you repudiate it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

And they spoke the word of God to him together with all who were in his house.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

And he settled there for a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;