Evangelism Is Words

Death and life are in the power of the tongue. (Proverbs 18:21)

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. (Jesus, John 5:24)

[Peter] will tell you words by which you and all your household will be saved. (An angel from Heaven, Acts 11:14)

For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? (Paul, Romans 10:13–14)

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. (Jesus, John 6:63)

For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe. (Paul, 1 Thessalonians 2:13)

[You have] been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because, “All flesh is as grass…” Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you. (Peter, 1 Peter 1:23–24)

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (Paul, 1 Corinthians 1:18)

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. (Paul 1 Corinthians 1:17)

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. (Paul, 1 Corinthians 1:21)

…But we preach Christ crucified… (Paul, 1 Corinthians 1:23)

But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” (Peter, John 6:68)

“I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak. (Paul, 2 Corinthians 4:13)

We were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict … But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts … So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us … we preached to you the gospel of God … When you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe … [speaking] to the Gentiles that they may be saved … (Paul, 1 Thessalonians 2:2, 4, 8, 9, 13, 16)

“If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.” (Luke 16:31)

Then Paul, as his custom was … reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.” And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas. (Acts 17:2–4)

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks. (Acts 18:4)

...Paul has persuaded and turned away many people. (Complaint in Ephesus, Acts 19:26)

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You almost persuade me to become a Christian.” (King Agrippa, Acts 26:28)

[Paul] explained and solemnly testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning till evening. And some were persuaded by the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved. (Acts 28:23, 24)

Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. (2 Corinthians 5:11, NIV)

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations... (Jesus, Matthew 28:19)

The sower sows the word … But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred. (Jesus, Mark 4:14, 20)