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

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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 the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

and, now, station yourselves, and I judge you before Jehovah, with all the righteous acts of Jehovah, which He did with you, and with your fathers.

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service;

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

Righteousness

having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

He said -- the God of Israel -- to me, He spake -- the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man is righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God.

Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.

For righteous is Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.

To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?

He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment.

-- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

An abomination to kings is doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.

And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there is the wicked.

How hath a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it with judgment, Righteousness lodgeth in it -- now murderers.

And established in kindness is the throne, And one hath sat on it in truth, in the tent of David, Judging and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

For I am Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them.

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you -- princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

'Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.

They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.

And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.

Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough it with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;

Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

Temperance

Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.

And for a spirit of judgment To him who is sitting in the judgment, And for might to those turning back the battle to the gate.

Belshazzar the king hath made a great feast to a thousand of his great men, and before the thousand he is drinking wine;

A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves with the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.

for John said to Herod -- 'It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

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and having brought them forth, said, 'Sirs, what must I do -- that I may be saved?'

And Agrippa said unto Paul, 'In a little thou dost persuade me to become a Christian!'

And the king of Israel saith, 'Take Micaiah, and turn him back unto Amon head of the city, and unto Joash son of the king,

Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

and the king Zedekiah sendeth, and taketh him, and the king asketh him in his house in secret, and saith, 'Is there a word from Jehovah?' And Jeremiah saith, 'There is,' and he saith, 'Into the hand of the king of Babylon thou art given.'

And the king Zedekiah sendeth, and taketh Jeremiah the prophet unto him, unto the third entrance that is in the house of Jehovah, and the king saith unto Jeremiah, 'I am asking thee a thing, do not hide from me anything.'

and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

and they, having disregarded it, went away, the one to his own field, and the other to his merchandise;

'Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;

General references

Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.

for John was saying to him, 'It is not lawful to thee to have her,'

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;