Convicção

8 and yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and Samaria and to the remotest parts of the earth.«

4 But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives.

14 You are the light of the world; a town cannot be hid if built on a hill-top.

15 Nor is a lamp lighted to be put under a bushel, but on the lampstand; and then it gives light to all in the house.

16 Just so let your light shine before all men, in order that they may see your holy lives and may give glory to your Father who is in Heaven.

12 Live honourable lives among the Gentiles, in order that, although they now speak against you as evil-doers, they may yet witness your good conduct, and may glorify God on the day of reward and retribution.

19 and ask on my behalf that words may be given to me so that, outspoken and fearless, I may make known the truths (hitherto kept secret) of the Good News–

20 to spread which I am an ambassador in chains–so that when telling them I may speak out boldly as I ought.

16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News. It is God's power which is at work for the salvation of every one who believes–the Jew first, and then the Gentile.

38 Every one, however, who has been ashamed of me and of my teachings in this faithless and sinful age, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in His Father's glory with the holy angels.«

29 Peter and the other Apostles replied, »We must obey God rather than man.

13 As they looked on Peter and John so fearlessly outspoken –and also discovered that they were illiterate persons, untrained in the schools– they were surprised; and now they recognized them as having been with Jesus.

15 Thus speak, exhort, reprove, with all impressiveness. Let no one make light of your authority.

8 Do not be ashamed then to bear witness for our Lord and for me His prisoner; but rather share suffering with me in the service of the Good News, strengthened by the power of God.