A Generous and Growing Church

⁴¹ So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them.

¹⁴ Joseph then invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, 75 people in all,^(A)

A Christian’s Duties to the State

13 Everyone must submit to the governing authorities,^(A) for there is no authority except from God,^(B) and those that exist are instituted by God.

²⁰ who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah^(A) while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people^[a](B)—were saved through water.