Acts 18:16

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And he drove them away from the judgment seat.

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  • Ps 76:10 : 10 When God rose up to judge, to save all the humble of the earth. Selah.
  • Rom 13:3-4 : 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will receive its approval. 4 For the ruler is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God's servant, an avenger who carries out wrath on the wrongdoer.
  • Rev 12:16 : 16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 18:17
    87%

    17Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio showed no concern for any of this.

  • Acts 18:11-15
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    80%

    11So Paul stayed there for a year and six months, teaching them the word of God.

    12While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him to the judgment seat.

    13They said, 'This man persuades people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the law.'

    14But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, 'If this were a case of wrongdoing or a serious crime, Jews, it would be reasonable for me to hear you out.'

    15'But if this is about questions of words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I do not wish to be a judge of such matters.'

  • Acts 16:19-23
    5 verses
    74%

    19When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.

    20They brought them before the magistrates and said, 'These men are Jews, and they are causing an uproar in our city.'

    21'They are advocating customs that are not lawful for us Romans to accept or practice.'

    22The crowd joined in the attack against them, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods.

    23After they had inflicted many blows on them, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.

  • Acts 25:17
    72%

    17When they came here, I did not delay, but the next day took my seat at the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought in.

  • Acts 24:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we arrested him and wanted to judge him according to our law.

    7But Lysias, the commander, came and intervened with great force, taking him out of our hands.

  • Acts 16:37-39
    3 verses
    70%

    37But Paul said to them, 'They have publicly beaten us without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. Now they want to release us secretly? Certainly not! Let them come themselves and escort us out!'

    38The officers reported this to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were afraid.

    39So they came to appease them, escorted them out of the prison, and requested them to leave the city.

  • Acts 22:21-24
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    70%

    21Then He said to me, 'Go, because I am sending you far away to the Gentiles.'

    22They listened to him until this statement. Then they raised their voices, shouting, 'Rid the earth of this man! He should not be allowed to live!'

    23As they were shouting, throwing off their cloaks, and flinging dust into the air,

    24the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks and directed that he be interrogated under flogging to understand the reason they were shouting against him like this.

  • Luke 4:29
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    29They got up, drove Him out of the town, and took Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him off the cliff.

  • Acts 17:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8They stirred up the crowd and the city rulers as they heard these things.

    9After receiving a pledge from Jason and the others, they released them.

  • Acts 7:57
    69%

    57At this they covered their ears and, shouting at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him.

  • Acts 21:36
    69%

    36The crowd that followed kept shouting, 'Take him away!'

  • Acts 21:32
    69%

    32At once, he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

  • Acts 6:12
    69%

    12They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes. They came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council.

  • Acts 16:35
    69%

    35When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: 'Release those men.'

  • Acts 25:6
    68%

    6After spending more than ten days among them, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day, he took his seat on the judgment seat and ordered Paul to be brought in.

  • Acts 14:5-6
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    5When both Gentiles and Jews, along with their leaders, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

    6Paul and Barnabas became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia—Lystra and Derbe—and the surrounding region.

  • Acts 19:40
    68%

    40For we are in danger of being charged with rioting over today’s events, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion." Having said this, he dismissed the assembly.

  • Acts 17:33
    68%

    33At that, Paul left the assembly.

  • Acts 18:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6But when they opposed him and spoke abusively, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, 'Your blood is on your own heads. I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.'

    7Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

  • Acts 19:38
    68%

    38If Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a grievance against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another.

  • Acts 26:30
    68%

    30The king, the governor, Bernice, and those sitting with them got up and left.

  • Acts 19:29
    67%

    29The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed together to the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's traveling companions.

  • Acts 19:32-33
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    67%

    32Meanwhile, some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in disarray, and most of them did not know why they had come together.

    33The Jews pushed Alexander to the front, and some of the crowd gave instructions to him. Alexander motioned with his hand and wanted to make a defense to the assembly.

  • Acts 17:1
    67%

    1After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

  • Acts 25:15
    67%

    15When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him, requesting a judgment against him.

  • John 19:13
    67%

    13So Pilate, when he heard this statement, brought Jesus out and sat on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, which in Aramaic is called Gabbatha.

  • Acts 21:30
    67%

    30The whole city was stirred up, and there was a commotion. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.

  • Acts 22:19
    67%

    19But I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You in the synagogues.

  • Acts 13:50
    67%

    50But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their region.

  • Acts 14:18
    67%

    18Even with these words, they barely restrained the crowds from sacrificing to them.

  • Acts 26:11
    67%

    11I punished them often in all the synagogues, trying to force them to blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.