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 Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.

Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: 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 case, says the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Righteousness

And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

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

For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright.

You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David.] Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?

He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges 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 the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

How has the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking justice, and hastening righteousness.

For I the LORD love justice, I hate robbery with a burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Thus says the LORD; Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Thus says the Lord GOD; Enough, O princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness, take away your evictions of my people, says the Lord GOD.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto you, and break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

And when he is come, he will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Temperance

Give not your strength unto women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!

And for a spirit of justice to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.

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

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.

For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

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

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

In which they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of dissipation, speaking evil of you:

And to knowledge self control; and to self control patience; and to patience godliness;

Go

And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost you persuade me to be a Christian.

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

Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, he said, you shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entrance that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask of you a thing; hide nothing from me.

And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

General references

Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

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

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;