Acts 24:25

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Acts 24:25

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Summary

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

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Righteousness

Temperance

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General references

Proverbs 28:6

Matthew 14:4

1 Corinthians 1:27

Bible References

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And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Righteousness

And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.} Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Temperance

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

Go

And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.

And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

General references

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;