Character

“The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.”

“When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.”

“so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world”

“The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.”

“For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.”

“Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.”

“God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.”

“There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the law who was highly regarded by all the Jews living there,”