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 to them and reasoned with them out of the Scriptures on three sabbaths,

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

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

Bring near your cause, says Jehovah; bring out your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.

I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear;

Righteousness

And I 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 who rules over men justly, ruling in the fear of God,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem.

For the righteous Jehovah loves righteousness; His face looks on 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. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David. Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

He will judge Your people in righteousness, and Your poor with judgment.

A Psalm of Asaph. God stands in the congregation of the mighty; in the midst of the gods He judges.

It is a hateful thing for kings to commit wickedness; for the throne is established by righteousness.

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

How has the faithful city become a harlot? It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.

And in mercy the throne shall be established; and he shall sit on it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment, and speeding righteousness.

For I Jehovah love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

So says Jehovah, Do judgment and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the oppressors's hand. And do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel. Remove violence and spoil, and do judgment and justice. Take away your demands on My people, says the Lord Jehovah.

Therefore, O king, let my advice be pleasing to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, whether there will be duration to your prosperity.

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

But let judgment roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock;

And when that One comes, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment.

Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as that One is righteous.

Temperance

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and your leaders eat in the morning.

and for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn back the battle to 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 rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.

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

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

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

In these things they are surprised, that you are not running with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control, patience, and with patience, godliness,

Go

And leading them outside, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

And Agrippa said to Paul, Do you persuade me to be a Christian in but a little?

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

Because I called, and you refused; I stretched out my hand, and no one paid attention;

And Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. And the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any Word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is. For, He said, you shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

And Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to him, into the third gate in the house of Jehovah. And the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing. Do not hide anything from me.

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

But not caring, they went their ways, one to his field, another to his trading.

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

General references

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

For John said to 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;