Acts 24:14

American Standard Version (1901)

But this I confess unto thee, that after the Way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

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  • Acts 3:13 : 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Servant Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
  • Acts 26:22 : 22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand unto this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses did say should come;
  • Acts 28:23 : 23 And when they had appointed him a day, they came to him into his lodging in great number; to whom he expounded [the matter], testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.
  • Rom 3:21 : 21 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
  • Acts 26:27 : 27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, how unceasing is my remembrance of thee in my supplications, night and day
  • Titus 3:10 : 10 A factious man after a first and second admonition refuse;
  • 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 searching what [time] or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus: worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
  • Acts 22:14 : 14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
  • Acts 24:22 : 22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will determine your matter.
  • Acts 26:6 : 6 And now I stand [here] to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;
  • 1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,
  • Acts 10:43 : 43 To him bear all the prophets witness, that through his name every one that believeth on him shall receive remission of sins.
  • Acts 13:15 : 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
  • Acts 19:9 : 9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
  • Acts 3:22-24 : 22 Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me. To him shall ye hearken in all things whatsoever he shall speak unto you. 23 And it shall be, that every soul that shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people. 24 Yea and all the prophets from Samuel and them that followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
  • Acts 5:30 : 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.
  • Acts 7:32 : 32 I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
  • Exod 3:15 : 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
  • 1 Chr 29:18 : 18 O Jehovah, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee;
  • Ps 119:46 : 46 I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, And shall not be put to shame.
  • Amos 8:14 : 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; they shall fall, and never rise up again.
  • Mic 4:2 : 2 And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem;
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.
  • Matt 10:32 : 32 Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
  • Matt 22:40 : 40 On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.
  • Luke 1:70 : 70 (As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from of old),
  • Luke 16:16 : 16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it.
  • Luke 16:29 : 29 But Abraham saith, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
  • Luke 24:27 : 27 And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
  • Luke 24:44 : 44 And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me.
  • John 1:45 : 45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
  • John 5:39-47 : 39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; 40 and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. 41 I receive not glory from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves. 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44 How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that [cometh] from the only God ye seek not? 45 Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, [even] Moses, on whom ye have set your hope. 46 For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me. 47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
  • Acts 19:23 : 23 And about that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.

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  • 13 Neither can they prove to thee the things whereof they now accuse me.

  • Acts 22:3-5
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    3 I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day:

    4 and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

    5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

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    19 And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

    20 and when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of them that slew him.

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    19 who ought to have been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me.

    20 Or else let these men themselves say what wrong-doing they found when I stood before the council,

    21 except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question before you this day.

    22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will determine your matter.

  • Acts 26:9-10
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    9 I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

    10 And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

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    15 having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

    16 Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

    17 Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

  • Acts 26:2-6
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    2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before thee this day touching all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews:

    3 especially because thou art expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

    4 My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

    5 having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

    6 And now I stand [here] to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

  • Gal 1:13-14
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    13 For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

    14 and I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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    21 For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

    22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand unto this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses did say should come;

  • Acts 24:9-11
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    9 And the Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that these things were so.

    10 And when the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, Paul answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I cheerfully make my defense:

    11 Seeing that thou canst take knowledge that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem:

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    12 Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

    13 at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that journeyed with me.

  • 8 while Paul said in his defense, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.

  • 1 Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you.

  • 6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

  • 22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.

  • 17 And it came to pass, that after three days he called together those that were the chief of the Jews: and when they were come together, he said unto them, I, brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

  • 29 whom I found to be accused about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

  • 1 And Paul, looking stedfastly on the council, said, Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day.

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    26 For the king knoweth of these things, unto whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him; for this hath not been done in a corner.

    27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.

  • 19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had aught whereof to accuse my nation.

  • 20 And they, when they heard it, glorified God; and they said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of them that have believed; and they are all zealous for the law:

  • 15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

  • 11 If then I am a wrong-doer, and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if none of those things is [true] whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

  • 23 but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;

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    21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

    22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

  • 19 Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

  • 13 saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

  • 8 And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

  • 6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • 10 And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.