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Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with [his] hand, said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
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The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it.
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And about the time of forty years he suffered their manners in the wilderness.
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And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
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And after that he gave [to them] judges, about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
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And afterward they desired a king: and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
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And when he had removed him, he raised up to them David to be their king: to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who shall fulfill all my will.
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Of this man's offspring hath God, according to [his] promise, raised up to Israel a Savior, Jesus:
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John having first preached, before his coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
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And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not [he]. But behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of [his] feet I am not worthy to loose.
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Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
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For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath, they have fulfilled [them] in condemning [him].
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And though they found no cause of death [in him], yet they desired Pilate that he should be put to death.
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And when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning him, they took [him] down from the tree, and laid [him] in a sepulcher.
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But God raised him from the dead:
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And he was seen many days by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
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And we declare to you the glad tidings, that the promise which was made to the fathers,
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God hath fulfilled the same to us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
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And as concerning that he raised him from the dead, [now] no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
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Wherefore he saith also in another [psalm], Thou wilt not suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.
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For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:
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But he whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
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Be it known to you therefore, men, brethren, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins;
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And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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Beware therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets;
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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe, though a man declare it to you.