Acts 19:9

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But when some became stubborn and refused to believe, speaking evil of the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them, took the disciples with him, and reasoned daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

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  • Acts 19:23 : 23 During that time, a great disturbance arose concerning the Way.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 He requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 14:4 : 4 The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, while others supported the apostles.
  • Acts 13:45-46 : 45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him. 46 Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, 'It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are now turning to the Gentiles.'
  • Acts 17:4 : 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of devout Greeks and a considerable number of prominent women.
  • Acts 18:6-8 : 6 But 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.' 7 Then 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. 8 Crispus, the synagogue leader, believed in the Lord together with his entire household. Many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized.
  • Acts 11:26 : 26 When he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year, they met with the church and taught a large number of people. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.
  • Acts 19:30 : 30 Paul wanted to go in before the crowd, but the disciples would not let him.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore, be watchful, remembering that for three years I never stopped admonishing each one of you with tears, night and day.
  • Acts 22:4 : 4 I persecuted this Way to the point of death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison.
  • Acts 24:21 : 21 Unless it was for this one statement I made while standing among them: 'It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am being judged before you today.'
  • Acts 28:22 : 22 But we would like to hear from you what you think, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 So then, he has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens whom he wills.
  • Rom 11:7 : 7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The chosen obtained it, but the rest were hardened.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.
  • 2 Tim 1:15 : 15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia has turned away from me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
  • 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 They will have a form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.
  • 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching.
  • Heb 3:13 : 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called "Today," so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
  • 2 Pet 2:2 : 2 Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 These people, however, are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They speak abusively about things they do not understand, and in their destruction, they too will be destroyed.
  • Jude 1:10 : 10 These people speak abusively about what they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct—like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.
  • 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 But they would not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks like their fathers who did not believe in the Lord their God.
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now do not harden your necks as your ancestors did. Submit to the LORD; come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against His people beyond remedy.
  • Neh 9:16-17 : 16 But they, our ancestors, acted arrogantly. They stiffened their necks and did not obey Your commandments. 17 They refused to listen and did not remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, and You did not abandon them.
  • Neh 9:29 : 29 You warned them to return to Your law, but they acted arrogantly and did not obey Your commandments. They sinned against Your judgments, which, if a person does, they will live by them. Stubbornly, they turned their backs, stiffened their necks, and would not listen.
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the doorposts of my entrances.
  • Isa 8:14 : 14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 But they did not listen to me or incline their ear; instead, they stiffened their necks and did worse than their ancestors.
  • Jer 19:15 : 15 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to bring upon this city and all its surrounding towns all the disaster I pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks and refused to listen to My words.
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Leave them alone; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet." Then He left them and went away.
  • Matt 26:55 : 55 At that time, Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as if I were a robber? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.
  • Luke 12:51-53 : 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. 52 From now on there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 53 They will be divided: father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.
  • John 12:40 : 40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they would not see with their eyes or understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them."
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.

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    8Paul went into the synagogue, and for three months he spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

  • Acts 19:10
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    10This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

  • Acts 19:23
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    23During that time, a great disturbance arose concerning the Way.

  • Acts 17:33-34
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  • Acts 18:19-20
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    19They arrived at Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

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  • Acts 9:29-30
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  • Acts 17:17-18
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    17So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout people, and every day in the marketplace with those who happened to be there.

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  • Acts 18:23
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    23After spending some time there, he departed and traveled throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

  • Acts 19:29-30
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    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.

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

  • Acts 18:26-27
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  • Acts 14:20-21
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    20But when the disciples gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day, he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

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  • Acts 13:43-44
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    43After the synagogue meeting had ended, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

    44On the following Sabbath, almost the entire city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.

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    22But we would like to hear from you what you think, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.

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    24Some were convinced by what he said, but others did not believe.

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  • Acts 13:12-14
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    12Then the proconsul, when he saw what had happened, believed, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.

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    2According to his custom, Paul went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures.

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    2But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and turned them against the brothers.

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