Acts 17:31

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Summary

Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

He hath appointed

In that

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He hath appointed

He also directed us to announce to the people and bear solemn testimony that he is the one whom God has appointed to be the judge of the living and the dead.

"When the Son of Man comes in his splendor, with all his angels with him, he will take his seat on his glorious throne,

For the Father passes judgment on no one, but he has committed the judgment entirely to the Son,

But in your obstinacy and impenitence you are storing up wrath for yourself on the Day of Wrath, when the justice of God will burst forth.

For Christ died and returned to life for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

Do not form any premature judgments, therefore, but wait until the Lord comes back. For he will light up the darkness that now hides things and show what the motives in people's minds are, and then everyone will get from God the praise he deserves.

For we must all appear in our true characters before the tribunal of the Christ, each to be repaid with good or evil for the life he has lived in the body.

I charge you in the sight of God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

But by the same command the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, and are kept for the day when godless men are to be judged and destroyed.

Of them also Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, when he said, "See! The Lord comes with his holy myriads

In that

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some of them said, "What is this rag-picker trying to make out?" Others said, "He seems to be preaching some foreign deities." This was because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

But you, by the fixed purpose and intention of God, handed him over to wicked men, and had him crucified.

and killed the very source of life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can testify.

you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.

The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him.

We are witnesses of everything that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. Yet they put him upon a cross and killed him.

But God raised him from the dead,

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day,

For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold,

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For the Father passes judgment on no one, but he has committed the judgment entirely to the Son,

and he will send Jesus, your destined Christ.

But God raised him to life on the third day and caused him to be plainly seen,

But God raised him from the dead,

Why do you all think it incredible that God should raise the dead?

and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either,