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

And He has commanded us to preach to the people and solemnly declare that this is He who has been appointed by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.

"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then will He sit upon His glorious throne,

The Father indeed does not judge any one, but He has entrusted all judgement to the Son,

The fact is that in the stubbornness of your impenitent heart you are treasuring up against yourself anger on the day of Anger--the day when the righteousness of God's judgements will stand revealed.

For this was the purpose of Christ's dying and coming to life--namely that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living.

Therefore form no premature judgements, but wait until the Lord returns. He will both bring to light the secrets of darkness and will openly disclose the motives that have been in people's hearts; and then the praise which each man deserves will come to him from God.

For we must all of us appear before Christ's judgement-seat in our true characters, in order that each may then receive an award for his actions in this life, in accordance with what he has done, whether it be good or whether it be worthless.

I solemnly implore you, in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and the dead, and by His Appearing and His Kingship:

But the present heavens and the present earth are, by the command of the same God, kept stored up, reserved for fire in preparation for a day of judgement and of destruction for the ungodly.

It was also about these that Enoch, who belonged to the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "The Lord has come, attended by myriads of His people, to execute judgement upon all,

In that

A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some of them asked, "What has this beggarly babbler to say?" "His business," said others, "seems to be to cry up some foreign gods." This was because he had been telling the Good News of Jesus and the Resurrection.

delivered up through God's settled purpose and foreknowledge--you by the hands of Gentiles have nailed to a cross and have put to death.

The Prince of Life you put to death; but God has raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses as to that.

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that through the name of Jesus the Anointed, the Nazarene, whom *you* crucified, but whom *God* has raised from among the dead-- through that name this man stands here before you in perfect health.

The God of our forefathers has raised Jesus to life, whom you crucified and put to death.

"And we are witnesses as to all that He did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. But they even put Him to death, by crucifixion.

"But God raised Him from the dead.

and He said, "Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise again from among the dead;

For I repeated to you the all-important fact which also I had been taught, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures;

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The Father indeed does not judge any one, but He has entrusted all judgement to the Son,

and that He may send the Christ appointed beforehand for you--even Jesus.

That same Jesus God raised to life on the third day, and permitted Him to appear unmistakably,

"But God raised Him from the dead.

Why is it deemed with all of you a thing past belief if God raises the dead to life?

And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.