Acts 26:20

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Summary

But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

And at

Acts 9:28

Acts 22:17

And then

Romans 11:18

And do

General references

Luke 5:32

Bible References

And at

Henceforth Saul was one of them, going in and out of the city, and speaking fearlessly in the Name of the Lord.

"After my return to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple,

And then

"'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes

So Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly. "It was necessary," they said, "first to proclaim the word of God to you. But since you push it away from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

In bygone generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways,

"'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

or if you are glorying, remember that it is not you who uphold the root, but the root which upholds you.

And do

Then bring forth fruit worthy of repentance.

Then bring forth fruit befitting your penitence, and do not begin to say to yourselves, "We have Abraham as our father." I tell you that God is able to raise up sons to Abraham out of these stones.

But Zaccheus stood up and said to the Lord, "I give half my property to the poor, Lord, and if I have defrauded any man of anything I am restoring it to him fourfold."

This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;

Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

that the older men be self-controlled, serious and sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light??10 you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy.

so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.

For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge,

General references

I am not come to call the righteous but sinners, to repentance."