Acts 24:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Matthew 10:32

After

Acts 9:2

Acts 19:9

2 Peter 2:2

Heresy

2 Peter 2:1

The god

2 Timothy 1:3

Believing

In the law

Bible References

I confess

Whosoever then shall own me before men, I also will own him before my Father, who is in heaven:

After

that if he should find any of this persuasion, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

But as some were hardened and refractory, speaking evil of the way of life before the multitude, he departed from them, and took away the disciples with him, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

And many will follow their pernicious tenets, on whose account the way of truth will be reproached:

Heresy

For having found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

For there must be even heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, strifes, emulations, animosities, contentions, divisions,

reject therefore such an heretical man, after the first and second admonition; knowing that such a one is perverted,

But there were indeed false prophets among the people of old, as there will be also among you false teachers, who will privately introduce pernicious heresies, denying even the Lord that bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction,

The god

The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his son Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied before Pilate, when he determined to release Him.

The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

saying, "I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;" but Moses trembling durst not look on.

And he said, The God of our Fathers hath before appointed thee to know his will, and to see the just One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

I give thanks to God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience, having remembrance of thee continually in my prayers night and day;

Believing

For Moses said unto the fathers, the Lord your God will raise up a prophet unto you, of your brethren, like me, Him shall ye hear in all things whatever He shall say unto you;

To Him do all the prophets bear witness, that whosoever believeth on Him shall receive the forgiveness of their sins through his name.

But having obtained help of God, I continue until this day, testifying both to small and great, and saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses declared should come to pass; even that the Messiah should suffer,

And having appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging; to whom he discoursed and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

in the house of his servant David, as He spake by the mouth of his holy prophets from the beginning,

And beginning from Moses, and all the prophets, He explained to them in all the scriptures the things that were spoken concerning Himself.

Ye search the scriptures; for ye think that in them ye have eternal life:

searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did declare in testifying beforehand the sufferings that were to come upon Christ, and the glories following them:

And I fell at his feet to worship him: and he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow-servant, and a fellow-servant of thy brethren, that hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship 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 unto them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, deliver it.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would have men do to you, do ye also in like manner unto them: for this is the doctrine of the law and the prophets.

On these two precepts depend all the law and the prophets.

The law and the prophets continued until John: from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one presseth into it.

Philip meeting Nathaniel, saith unto him, We have found Him, of whom Moses in the law, and of whom the prophets also wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Jeseph.

But now, without the law, righteousness before God is manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets;