Acts 16:21

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Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans.

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  • Esth 3:8 : 8 And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.
  • Acts 16:12 : 12 And from there to Philippi, which is the most important town of Macedonia and a Roman colony: and we were there for some days.
  • Acts 26:3 : 3 The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.
  • Jer 10:3 : 3 For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

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    19 But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;

    20 And when they had taken them before the authorities, they said, These men, who are Jews, are greatly troubling our town;

  • Acts 16:22-23
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    22 And the people made an attack on them all together: and the authorities took their clothing off them, and gave orders for them to be whipped.

    23 And when they had given them a great number of blows, they put them in prison, giving orders to the keeper of the prison to keep them safely:

  • Acts 21:21-25
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    21 And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.

    22 What then is the position? They will certainly get news that you have come.

    23 Do this, then, which we say to you: We have four men who have taken an oath;

    24 Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law.

    25 But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.

  • Acts 16:37-39
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    37 But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out.

    38 And the police gave an account of these words to the authorities, and they were full of fear on hearing that they were Romans;

    39 Then they came and made prayers to them, requesting them, when they had taken them out, to go away from the town.

  • Acts 24:6-7
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    6 Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,

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  • Acts 28:17
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    17 Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.

  • Acts 18:13
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    13 Saying, This man is teaching the people to give worship to God in a way which is against the law.

  • Acts 17:7-8
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    7 Whom Jason has taken into his house: and they are acting against the orders of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

    8 And hearing these things the people and the rulers of the town were troubled.

  • Acts 22:22-25
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    22 And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living.

    23 And while they were crying out, and pulling off their clothing, and sending dust into the air,

    24 The chief captain gave orders for him to be taken into the army building, saying that he would put him to the test by whipping, so that he might have knowledge of the reason why they were crying out so violently against him.

    25 And when they had put leather bands round him, Paul said to the captain who was present, Is it the law for you to give blows to a man who is a Roman and has not been judged?

  • Acts 25:16-17
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    16 To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him.

    17 So, when they had come together here, straight away, on the day after, I took my place on the judge's seat and sent for the man.

  • Acts 6:14
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    14 For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.

  • Acts 15:24
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    24 Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

  • Acts 19:40
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    40 For, truly, we are in danger of being made responsible for this day's trouble, there being no cause for it: and we are not able to give any reason for this coming together. And when he had said this, he sent the meeting away.

  • Acts 15:19-20
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    19 For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

    20 But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

  • Acts 21:28-29
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    28 Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean.

    29 For they had seen him before in the town with Trophimus of Ephesus, and had the idea that Paul had taken him with him into the Temple.

  • Acts 5:27-28
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    27 And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,

    28 We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your teaching, and you are attempting to make us responsible for this man's death.

  • Acts 28:21-22
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    21 And they said to him, We have not had letters from Judaea about you, and no one of the brothers has come to us here to give an account or say any evil about you.

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  • Acts 21:12
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    12 And hearing these things, we and those who were living in that place made request to him not to go to Jerusalem.

  • Acts 4:16
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    16 Saying, What are we to do with these men? for certainly it is clear to all who are living in Jerusalem that a most important sign has been done by them, and it is not possible to say that it is not so.

  • Acts 17:19-20
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    19 And they took him to Mars' Hill, saying, Will you make clear to us what is this new teaching of yours?

    20 For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

  • Acts 19:37
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    37 For you have taken these men, who are not doing damage to the holy place or talking against our goddess.

  • Acts 14:18
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    18 And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.

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    21 And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:

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    31 Then Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and let him be judged by your law. But the Jews said to him, We have no right to put any man to death.

  • Acts 15:28
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    28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;

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    4 And on their way through the towns, they gave them the rules which had been made by the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem, so that they might keep them.

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    21 For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death.

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    28 And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin:

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    10 Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?