Acts 24:14

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Acts 24:14

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Summary

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

I confess

Psalm 119:46

Matthew 10:32

After

Heresy

2 Peter 2:1

So

Micah 4:2

The god

2 Timothy 1:3

Believing

In the law

General references

Daniel 6:5

Bible References

I confess

And I will speak of thy testimonies before kings, and will not be ashamed;

Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, I also will confess him before my Father who is in the heavens.

After

and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

But when some were hardened and disbelieved, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

they that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth! and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth! even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.

Heresy

For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazaraeans;

For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,

An heretical man after a first and second admonition have done with,

But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;

So

And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, 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 shall go forth the law, and Jehovah's word from Jerusalem.

The god

The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he had judged that he should be let go.

The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom ye have slain, having hanged on a cross.

I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider it.

And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen thee beforehand to know his will, and to see the just one, and to hear a voice out of his mouth;

And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you. This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

Jehovah, God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and direct their hearts to thee!

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day,

Believing

Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye hear in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.

To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that believes on him will receive through his name remission of sins.

Having therefore met with the help which is from God, I have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing else than those things which both the prophets and Moses have said should happen,

And having appointed him a day many came to him to the lodging, to whom he expounded, testifying of the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from early morning to evening.

as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began;

And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;

searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ which was in them pointed out, testifying before of the sufferings which belonged to Christ, and the glories after these.

And I fell before his feet to do him homage. And he says to me, See thou do it not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and the fellow-bondman of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Do homage to God. For the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.

In the law

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.

Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do ye also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets hang.

The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.

Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth.

But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;

General references

Then said these men, We shall not find any pretext against this Daniel, unless we find it against him touching the law of his God.