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 as was his custom}, Paul went in to them and on three Sabbath [days] he discussed with them from the scriptures,

So then take your stand, so that I may judge you before Yahweh with [regard to] all the [deeds of] justice of Yahweh that he performed with both you and your ancestors.

"Come now, and let us argue," says Yahweh. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

"Present your legal case," says Yahweh. "Bring your evidence," says the king of Jacob.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies [as] a living sacrifice, holy [and] pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

but set Christ apart [as] Lord in your hearts, always ready to [make] a defense to anyone who asks you [for] an accounting concerning the hope [that is] in you.

Righteousness

having a hope in God which these [men] also themselves await: [that] there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

The God of Israel said to me, the rock of Israel has spoken; 'He who rules over mankind rules righteously, in the fear of God.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice [was] like a robe and a headband.

For Yahweh [is] righteous; he loves righteous deeds. [The] upright shall see his face.

You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you from among your companions [with] festive oil.

Do you really speak [what is] right [when] silent? [Do] you judge fairly the children of humankind?

May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of [the] gods.

An abomination to kings [is] doing evil, for by righteousness the throne will be established.

I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice [there was] evil; instead of righteousness [there was] wickedness.

How has a faithful city become like a whore? Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

then a throne shall be established in steadfast love, and one shall sit on it in faithfulness, in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and zealous for righteousness.

For I, Yahweh, love justice, hate robbery and injustice, and I will {faithfully} give their reward, and I will {make} an everlasting covenant {with} them.

Thus says Yahweh, "Act [with] justice and righteousness, and deliver [the] one who has been seized from the hand of [the] oppressor. And you must not oppress [the] immigrant, [the] orphan, and [the] widow. And you must not shed innocent blood in this place.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Enough [of this] for you, the princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness; revoke your [acts of] dispossession from upon my people!" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable [to you] and your sin remove with righteousness and your iniquity with having mercy on [the] oppressed, {in case there might be a prolongation of your prosperity}.'"

They utter words of vain oaths [when] {making covenants}, and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field.

But let justice roll on like the water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and [the] fruit of righteousness into wormwood!

And [when he] comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment:

Little children, let no one deceive you: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous.

Temperance

Do not give your strength to the women, and your ways to destroy kings.

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast in the morning.

and a spirit of justice to the one who sits over judgment, and strength [to] those who turn back [the] battle [at the] gate.

Belshazzar the king made a great festival for thousand [of] his lords, and {in the presence of} the thousand [lords] he was drinking wine.

[On] the day of our king, the princes became sick [with] the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not permitted for you to have your brother's wife."

gentleness, self control. Against such things [there] is no law.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people,

with respect to which they are surprised [when] you do not run with [them] into the same flood of dissipation, [and so they] revile [you].

and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness,

Go

And he brought them outside [and] said, "Sirs, what must I do so that I can be saved?"

But Agrippa [said] to Paul, "In a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?"

The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the commander of the city and to Jehoash the son of the king;

Because I called out and you refused me, I stretched out my hand, yet there is none who heeds.

Then King Zedekiah sent and fetched him. And the king questioned him in secrecy in his house, and he said, "Is there a word from Yahweh?" And Jeremiah said, "There is." And he said, "You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon."

And Zedekiah the king sent and made someone bring Jeremiah the prophet to him, to [the] third entrance that [was] at the {temple} of Yahweh. And the king said to Jeremiah, "I [am] asking you {something}, you must not hide {anything} from me."

And [although he] wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they looked upon him as a prophet.

But they paid no attention [and] went away--this one to his own field, that one to his business.

"Then the kingdom of heaven may be compared to ten virgins who took their lamps [and] went out to meet the bridegroom.

General references

Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.

because John had been saying to him, "It is not permitted for you to have her."

But the foolish [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong,