"Therefore I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!"
NIV
So let it be understood by you then that [this message of] the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen [to it]! [Ps. 67:2.]AMP
Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
KJV
But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.
NIV
But many of those who heard the message believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on Jesus as the Christ). And their number grew and came to about 5,000.
AMP
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
KJV
"Brothers and sisters from the children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent."
NIV
Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and all those others among you who reverence and fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation [the salvation obtained through Jesus Christ]. [Ps. 107:20.]AMP
Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
KJV
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power
NIV
And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit and power [a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them]AMP
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
KJV
"That the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles."
NIV
That the Christ (the Anointed One) must suffer and that He, by being the first to rise from the dead, would declare and show light both to the [Jewish] people and to the Gentiles.
AMP
That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
KJV
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.
NIV
And whoever will not receive and accept and welcome you nor listen to your message, as you leave that house or town, shake the dust [of it] from your feet.
AMP
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
KJV
"When these people, or a prophet or a priest, ask you, 'What is the message from the LORD?' say to them, 'What message? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.'"
NIV
And when these people, or a prophet or a priest, ask you, What is the burden of the Lord [the thing to be lifted up now]? then you shall say to them, What burden [indeed]! [You are the burden!] And I will disburden Myself of you and I will cast you off, says the Lord.
AMP
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
KJV
I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?
NIV
Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the [Holy] Spirit as the result of obeying the Law and doing its works, or was it by hearing [the message of the Gospel] and believing [it]? [Was it from observing a law of rituals or from a message of faith?]AMP
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
KJV
