Acts 5:13

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Acts 5:13

And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.

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General references

John 13:35

Bible References

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And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.

Then the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish, we are dying, we are all dying!

“God brings him out of Egypt,
He is for him like the horns of the wild ox.

He will devour the nations who are his adversaries,

And will crush their bones in pieces,
And shatter them with his arrows.

So Samuel did what the Lord said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and said, “Do you come in peace?”

So she said to Elijah, “What do I have to do with you, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to put my son to death!”

Sinners in Zion are terrified;

Trembling has seized the godless.

“Who among us can live with the consuming fire?
Who among us can live with continual burning?”

Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.

Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be

put out of the synagogue;

After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.

When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened;

This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified.

As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen,

General references

By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”