Acts 5:13

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None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high honor.

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  • Acts 2:47 : 47 praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.
  • Acts 4:21 : 21 After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.
  • Acts 5:5 : 5 When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped all who heard about it.
  • Acts 19:17 : 17 This became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; fear came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was praised.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. 22 They are illustrations of this true proverb:“A dog returns to its own vomit,” and“A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
  • Num 17:12-13 : 12 The Israelites said to Moses,“We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish! 13 (17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Are we all to die?”
  • Num 24:8-9 : 8 God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull; they will devour hostile people and will break their bones and will pierce them through with arrows. 9 They crouch and lie down like a lion, and as a lioness, who can stir him? Blessed is the one who blesses you, and cursed is the one who curses you!’” 10 Then Balak became very angry at Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam,“I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have done nothing but bless them these three times!
  • 1 Sam 16:4-5 : 4 Samuel did what the LORD told him. When he arrived in Bethlehem, the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They said,“Do you come in peace?” 5 He replied,“Yes, in peace. I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” So he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
  • 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”
  • Isa 33:14 : 14 Sinners are afraid in Zion; panic grips the godless. They say,‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire? Who among us can coexist with unquenchable fire?’
  • Luke 12:1-2 : 1 Fear God, Not People Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples,“Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 Nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing is secret that will not be made known.
  • Luke 14:26-35 : 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him. 30 They will say,‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’ 31 Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace. 33 In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions. 34 “Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored? 35 It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”
  • Luke 19:37-38 : 37 As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen: 38 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
  • Luke 19:48 : 48 but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.
  • John 9:22 : 22 (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
  • John 12:42 : 42 Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.
  • John 19:38 : 38 Jesus’ Burial After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus(but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.

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  • 21 Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

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    40 and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

    41 So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

  • 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

  • 21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

  • 12 All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another,“What does this mean?”

  • 46 for they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said,

  • 26 Then the commander of the temple guard went with the officers and brought the apostles without the use of force(for they were afraid of being stoned by the people).

  • 15 But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.

  • 24 because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a significant number of people were brought to the Lord.

  • 31 As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

  • 20 In this way the word of the Lord continued to grow in power and to prevail.

  • 26 Then astonishment seized them all, and they glorified God. They were filled with awe, saying,“We have seen incredible things today.”