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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Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

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

"Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "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," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Righteousness

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, 'One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face. For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

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

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

"For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

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

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Temperance

Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

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

and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who 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.

On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

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

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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

They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;

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

Agrippa said to Paul, "With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?"

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

Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the third entry that is in the house of Yahweh: and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.

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 own farm, another to his merchandise,

"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

General references

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

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

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;