Acts 17:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he saw the city was fully given to idolatry.

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  • Exod 32:19-20 : 19 As soon as he came near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. 20 He took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.
  • Num 25:6-9 : 6 And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the entrance of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel. 9 And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand. 10 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was zealous for my sake among them, that I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
  • 1 Kgs 19:10 : 10 And he said, I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.
  • 1 Kgs 19:14 : 14 And he said, I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.
  • Job 32:2-3 : 2 Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job, because he justified himself rather than God. 3 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
  • Job 32:18-20 : 18 For I am full of words; the spirit within me compels me. 19 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no outlet; it is ready to burst like new wineskins. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen on me.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because men do not keep Your law.
  • Ps 119:158 : 158 I see the treacherous and am disgusted because they do not keep Your word.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding back, and I could not stay.
  • Mic 3:8 : 8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 And when he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.
  • John 2:13 : 13 And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 17:23 : 23 For as I passed by and observed your objects of worship, I found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the one whom you worship without knowing—Him I proclaim to you.
  • 2 Pet 2:7 : 7 And delivered righteous Lot, who was distressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked:

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    17Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.

    18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What does this babbler want to say? Others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

    19And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is that you speak of?

    20For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we want to know what these things mean.

    21For all the Athenians and foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else, but to tell or to hear some new thing.

    22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ Hill and said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious.

    23For as I passed by and observed your objects of worship, I found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the one whom you worship without knowing—Him I proclaim to you.

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    13But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also, and stirred up the people.

    14And immediately the brothers sent Paul away to go to the sea: but Silas and Timothy stayed there still.

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    28And when they heard this, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

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    29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

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    33So Paul departed from among them.

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