Acts 24:14

World English Bible (2000)

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

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  • Acts 3:13 : 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
  • Acts 26:22 : 22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
  • Acts 28:23 : 23 When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
  • Rom 3:21 : 21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
  • Acts 26:27 : 27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe."
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
  • Titus 3:10 : 10 Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;
  • 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. 2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy."
  • Acts 22:14 : 14 He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
  • Acts 24:22 : 22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case."
  • Acts 26:6 : 6 Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
  • 1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
  • Acts 10:43 : 43 All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins."
  • Acts 13:15 : 15 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."
  • Acts 19:9 : 9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
  • Acts 3:22-24 : 22 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. 23 It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.' 24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
  • Acts 5:30 : 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
  • Acts 7:32 : 32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.
  • Exod 3:15 : 15 God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
  • 1 Chr 29:18 : 18 Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
  • Ps 119:46 : 46 I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.
  • Amos 8:14 : 14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, and never rise up again."
  • Mic 4:2 : 2 Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
  • Matt 10:32 : 32 Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
  • Matt 22:40 : 40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
  • Luke 1:70 : 70 (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
  • Luke 16:16 : 16 The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
  • Luke 16:29 : 29 "But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'
  • Luke 24:27 : 27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
  • Luke 24:44 : 44 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
  • John 1:45 : 45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
  • John 5:39-47 : 39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 41 I don't receive glory from men. 42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves. 43 I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God? 45 "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. 47 But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"
  • Acts 19:23 : 23 About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.

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    13 Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

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    3 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.

    4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

    5 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

  • Acts 22:19-20
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    19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

    20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'

  • Acts 24:19-22
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    19 They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

    20 Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

    21 unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"

    22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case."

  • Acts 26:9-10
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    9 "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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  • Acts 24:15-17
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    15 having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

    16 Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

    17 Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

  • Acts 26:2-6
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    2 "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

    3 especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

    4 "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

    5 having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

    6 Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

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    13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

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  • Acts 26:21-22
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    21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

    22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

  • Acts 24:9-11
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    9 The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.

    10 When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, "Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,

    11 seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

  • Acts 26:12-13
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    12 "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

    13 at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

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  • Acts 23:6
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    6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

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    22 But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

  • Acts 28:17
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    17 It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

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    29 I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

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    1 Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."

  • Acts 26:26-27
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    26 For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

    27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe."

  • Acts 28:19
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    19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

  • Acts 21:20
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    20 They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

  • Acts 26:15
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    15 "I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "He said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

  • Acts 25:11
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    11 For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

  • Gal 1:23
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    23 but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy."

  • Acts 20:21-22
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    21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

    22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

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    19 "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

  • Acts 18:13
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    13 saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

  • Acts 22:8
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    8 I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.'

  • Phil 3:6
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    6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • Acts 22:10
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    10 I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' The Lord said to me, 'Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.'