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David found favor in the sight of God, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

But Solomon built a house for Him.

‘Heaven is My throne,And earth is the footstool of My feet.What kind of house will you build for Me?' says the Lord,‘Or what place is there for My rest?

For in the case of many who had unclean spirits, they were coming out of them shouting with a loud voice; and many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

And they were giving him attention because he had for a long time astounded them with his magic arts.

who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.

For He had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of unrighteousness."

But Simon answered and said, "Pray earnestly to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me."

In humiliation His judgment was taken away;Who will recount His generation?For His life is removed from the earth."

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

And the Lord said to him, "Rise up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying,

But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name."

and he took food and was strengthened. Now for several days he was with the disciples who were at Damascus,

And all those hearing him continued to be astounded, and were saying, "Is this not the one who in Jerusalem destroyed those that called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?"

And there he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years, for he was paralyzed.

But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and unclean."

Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon's house, appeared at the gate;