Acts 24:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets:

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  • Acts 3:13 : 13 The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has given glory to his servant Jesus; whom you gave up, turning your backs on him, when Pilate had made the decision to let him go free.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 And made a request for letters from him to the Synagogues of Damascus, so that if there were any of the Way there, men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes:
  • Acts 26:22 : 22 And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about;
  • Acts 28:23 : 23 And when a day had been fixed, they came to his house in great numbers; and he gave them teaching, giving witness to the kingdom of God, and having discussions with them about Jesus, from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.
  • Rom 3:21 : 21 But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;
  • Acts 26:27 : 27 King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day
  • Titus 3:10 : 10 A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society;
  • 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it. 2 And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.
  • Acts 22:14 : 14 And he said, You have been marked out by the God of our fathers to have knowledge of his purpose, and to see the Upright One and to give ear to the words of his mouth.
  • Acts 24:22 : 22 But Felix, who had a more detailed knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, When Lysias, the chief captain, comes down, I will give attention to your business.
  • Acts 26:6 : 6 And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;
  • 1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,
  • Acts 10:43 : 43 To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.
  • Acts 13:15 : 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the Synagogue sent to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a word of comfort for the people, say on.
  • Acts 19:9 : 9 But because some of the people were hard-hearted and would not give hearing, saying evil words about the Way before the people, he went away from them, and kept the disciples separate, reasoning every day in the school of Tyrannus.
  • Acts 3:22-24 : 22 For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you. 23 And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people. 24 And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.
  • Acts 5:30 : 30 The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.
  • Acts 7:32 : 32 I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.
  • Exod 3:15 : 15 And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations.
  • 1 Chr 29:18 : 18 O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;
  • Ps 119:46 : 46 So that I may give knowledge of your unchanging word before kings, and not be put to shame.
  • Amos 8:14 : 14 Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.
  • Mic 4:2 : 2 And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
  • Matt 10:32 : 32 To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.
  • Matt 22:40 : 40 On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.
  • Luke 1:70 : 70 (As he said, by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the earliest times,)
  • Luke 16:16 : 16 The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.
  • Luke 16:29 : 29 But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.
  • Luke 24:27 : 27 And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.
  • Luke 24:44 : 44 And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.
  • John 1:45 : 45 Philip came across Nathanael and said to him, We have made a discovery! It is he of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets were writing, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
  • John 5:39-47 : 39 You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me. 40 And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life. 41 I do not take honour from men; 42 But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval. 44 How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God? 45 Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes. 46 If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me. 47 If you have no belief in his writings, how will you have belief in my words?
  • Acts 19:23 : 23 And about that time a great outcry took place about the Way.

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  • Acts 24:13
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    13 And they are not able to give facts in support of the things which they say against me now.

  • Acts 22:3-5
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    3 I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.

    4 And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison.

    5 Of which the high priest will be a witness, and all the rulers, from whom I had letters to the brothers; and I went into Damascus, to take those who were there as prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment.

  • Acts 22:19-20
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    19 And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you:

    20 And when Stephen your witness was put to death, I was there, giving approval, and looking after the clothing of those who put him to death.

  • Acts 24:19-22
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    19 And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me.

    20 Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin,

    21 But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead.

    22 But Felix, who had a more detailed knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, When Lysias, the chief captain, comes down, I will give attention to your business.

  • Acts 26:9-10
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    9 For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

    10 And this I did in Jerusalem: and numbers of the saints I put in prison, having had authority given to me from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my decision against them.

  • Acts 24:15-17
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    15 Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers.

    16 And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

    17 Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:

  • Acts 26:2-6
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    2 In my opinion I am happy, King Agrippa, to be able to give my answer before you today to all these things which the Jews say against me:

    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.

    4 All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years, as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem;

    5 And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.

    6 And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;

  • Gal 1:13-14
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    13 For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

    14 And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

  • Acts 26:21-22
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    21 For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death.

    22 And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about;

  • Acts 24:9-11
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    9 And the Jews were in agreement with his statement, saying that these things were so.

    10 Then when the ruler had given him a sign to make his answer, Paul said, Because I have knowledge that you have been a judge over this nation for a number of years, I am glad to make my answer:

    11 Seeing that you are able to make certain of the fact that it is not more than twelve days from the time when I came up to Jerusalem for worship;

  • Acts 26:12-13
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    12 Then, when I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and orders of the chief priests,

    13 In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me.

  • Acts 25:8
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    8 Then Paul, in his answer to them, said, I have done no wrong against the law of the Jews, or against the Temple, or against Caesar.

  • Acts 22:1
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    1 My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.

  • Acts 23:6
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    6 But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin, Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees: I am here to be judged on the question of the hope of the coming back from the dead.

  • Acts 28:22
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    22 But we have a desire to give hearing to your opinion: for as to this form of religion, we have knowledge that in all places it is attacked.

  • 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 23:29
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    29 Then it became clear to me that it was a question of their law, and that nothing was said against him which might be a reason for prison or death.

  • Acts 23:1
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    1 And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.

  • Acts 26:26-27
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    26 For the king has knowledge of these things, to whom I am talking freely; being certain that all this is common knowledge to him; for it has not been done in secret.

    27 King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.

  • Acts 28:19
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    19 But when the Jews made protest against it, I had to put my cause into Caesar's hands; not because I have anything to say against my nation.

  • Acts 21:20
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    20 And hearing it, they gave praise to God; and they said to him, You see, brother, what thousands there are among the Jews, who have the faith; and they all have a great respect for the law:

  • Acts 26:15
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    15 And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking.

  • Acts 25:11
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    11 If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.

  • Gal 1:23
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    23 Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;

  • Acts 20:21-22
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    21 Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

    22 And now, as you see, I am going to Jerusalem, a prisoner in spirit, having no knowledge of what will come to me there:

  • Acts 26:19
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    19 So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;

  • 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 22:8
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    8 And I, answering, said, Who are you; Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are attacking.

  • Phil 3:6
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    6 In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

  • Acts 22:10
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    10 And I said, What have I to do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Get up, and go into Damascus; and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.