'Message' in the Bible

And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your message with complete boldness,

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak God’s message with boldness.

"Go, stand in the Temple, and keep on telling the people the whole message about this life they can have."

So the Twelve called together the general body of the disciples and said, "It does not seem fitting that we Apostles should neglect the delivery of God's Message and minister at tables.

But, as for us, we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the delivery of the Message."

And the message of God kept on growing and spreading, and the number of disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem; and a large number of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith [accepting Jesus as Messiah and acknowledging Him as the Source of eternal salvation].

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

So those who were scattered went on their way preaching the message of good news.

The crowds, hearing his message and seeing the signs that he was doing, paid close attention to what was said by Philip.

When the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had welcomed God’s message, they sent Peter and John to them.

Then, after they had testified and spoken the message of the Lord, they traveled back to Jerusalem, evangelizing many villages of the Samaritans.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely directed by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

He sent the message to the Israelites, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all.

you know the things that have taken place throughout Judea, starting in Galilee after the baptism preached by John—

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who heard the message.

The apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had welcomed God’s message also.

who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.'

Those who had been scattered as a result of the persecution that started because of Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one except Jews.

Then God’s message flourished and multiplied.

Arriving in Salamis, they proclaimed God’s message in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their assistant.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear God’s message.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you can speak.”

“Brothers, sons of Abraham’s race, and those among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

The following Sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the message of the Lord.

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.

So the message of the Lord spread through the whole region.

but the unbelieving Jews [who rejected Jesus as Messiah] stirred up and embittered the minds of the Gentiles against the believers.

So they stayed there for some time and spoke boldly in reliance on the Lord, who testified to the message of His grace by granting that signs and wonders be performed through them.

After they spoke the message in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them: “Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.

So we have sent Judas and Silas, who will report by word of mouth the same things [that we decided in our meeting].

Both Judas and Silas, who were also prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers and strengthened them with a long message.

But Paul and Barnabas, along with many others, remained in Antioch teaching and proclaiming the message of the Lord.

After some time had passed, Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit the brothers in every town where we have preached the message of the Lord and see how they’re doing.”

They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia and were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia.

Then they spoke the message of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house.

The officers reported this message to the chief magistrates, and when they heard that the prisoners were Romans, they were frightened;

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that God’s message had been proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there too, agitating and disturbing the crowds.

Those who were caring for Paul's safety went with him as far as Athens, and then left him, taking a message from him to Silas and Timothy, asking them to join him as speedily as possible.

When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

So Paul remained in Corinth for a year and six months, teaching among them the Message of God.

This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of the province of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks, heard the Lord's Message.

In this way the Lord’s message flourished and prevailed.

Even some officials of the province of Asia who were his friends sent him a message urging him not to risk his life in the theater.

On the first day of the week, we assembled to break bread. Paul spoke to them, and since he was about to depart the next day, he extended his message until midnight.

From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.

“And now I commit you to God and to the message of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, [and to progressively understand His plan with clarity and power] and to see the Righteous One [Jesus Christ, the Messiah] and to hear a message from His [own] mouth.

He wrote a letter with this message:

since the Christ was to be a suffering Christ, and by coming back from the dead was then to be the first to proclaim a message of light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

You must understand that this message about God's salvation has been sent to the gentiles, and they will listen."

On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim:

But all did not obey the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

But I say, did they not hear? Indeed they have;“Their voice [that of creation bearing God’s message] has gone out to all the earth,And their words to the [farthest] ends of the world.”

for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Now to the one who is able to strengthen you with my gospel and the message that I preach about Jesus, the Messiah, by revealing the secret that was kept hidden from long ago

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever, wise words, but by a display of the Spirit's power,

However, when we are among mature people, we do speak a message of wisdom, but not the wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are passing off the scene.

to one is given a message of wisdomthrough the Spirit,to another, a message of knowledgeby the same Spirit,

In the same way, unless you speak an intelligible message with your language, how will anyone know what is being said? You'll be talking into the air!

Was it from you that God's Message first went forth, or is it to you only that it has come?

You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose.

and if the Messiah has not been raised, then our message means nothing and your faith means nothing.

As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.”

For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.

That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

by the message of truth,by the power of God;through weapons of righteousnesson the right hand and the left,

Now those who were reputed to be important added nothing to my message. (What sort of people they were makes no difference to me, since God pays no attention to outward appearances.)

This is all I want to ask of you: did you receive the [Holy] Spirit as the result of obeying [the requirements of] the Law, or was it the result of hearing [the message of salvation and] with faith [believing it]?

So then, does He who supplies you with His [marvelous Holy] Spirit and works miracles among you, do it as a result of the works of the Law [which you perform], or because you [believe confidently in the message which you] heard with faith?

The one who is taught the message must share all his good things with the teacher.

In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,

Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.

Most of the brothers in the Lord have gained confidence from my imprisonment and dare even more to speak the message fearlessly.

Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.

because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the message of truth, the gospel

I have become its servant, according to God’s administration that was given to me for you, to make God’s message fully known,

Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God.

At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to speak the mystery of the Messiah, for which I am in prison,

and you became imitators of us and of the Lord when, in spite of severe persecution, you welcomed the message with joy from the Holy Spirit.

For the Lord’s message rang out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place that your faith in God has gone out. Therefore, we don’t need to say anything,

This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the message about God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the message of God, which also works effectively in you believers.

not to be easily upset in mind or troubled, either by a spirit or by a message or by a letter as if from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has come.

Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions you were taught, either by our message or by our letter.

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you,

But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed.

I suffer for it to the point of being bound like a criminal, but God’s message is not bound.

Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching.

You, too, must watch out for him, for he violently opposed our message.

However, the Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles could hear it. I was rescued out of a lion's mouth.

In His own time He has revealed His message in the proclamation that I was entrusted with by the command of God our Savior:

holding to the faithful message as taught, so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and to refute those who contradict it.