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 according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,

And now stand still, that I may plead with you before Jehovah of all the righteous acts of Jehovah which he did to you and to your fathers.

Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your arguments, saith the King of Jacob.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.

but sanctify the Lord the Christ in your hearts, and be always prepared to give an answer to every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear;

Righteousness

having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.

The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me, The ruler among men shall be just, Ruling in the fear of God;

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.

For righteous is Jehovah; he loveth righteousness, his countenance doth behold the upright.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

{To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.} Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?

He will judge thy people with righteousness, and thine afflicted with judgment.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} God standeth in the assembly of God, he judgeth among the gods.

It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; for the throne is established by righteousness.

And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there.

How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.

And a throne shall be established in mercy: and in the tent of David there shall sit upon it, in truth, one judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.

For I, Jehovah, love judgment, I hate robbery with wrong; and I will give their recompence in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Thus saith Jehovah: Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place.

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel! Put away violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice; take off your exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

They speak mere words, swearing falsely in making a covenant; therefore shall judgment spring up as hemlock in the furrows of the fields.

but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.

Shall horses run upon the rock? will men plough thereon with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world, of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

Children, let no man lead you astray; he that practises righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Temperance

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to them that destroy kings.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

and for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.

In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners.

For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have the wife of thy brother.

meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.

For the grace of God which carries with it salvation for all men has appeared,

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously of you;

in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,

Go

And leading them out said, Sirs, what must I do that I may be saved?

And Agrippa said to Paul, In a little thou persuadest me to become a Christian.

And the king of Israel said, Take Micah and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;

king Zedekiah sent and took him out. And the king asked of him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is; and he said, Thou shalt be given into the hand of the king of Babylon.

And king Zedekiah sent and took the prophet Jeremiah unto him, into the third entry that is in the house of Jehovah; and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing: hide nothing from me.

And while desiring to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they held him for a prophet.

But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land, and another to his commerce.

Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be made like to ten virgins that having taken their torches, went forth to meet the bridegroom.

General references

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse, double in ways, though he be rich.

For John said to him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;