Acts 5:20

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Acts 5:20

Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

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1 John 5:11

General references

Proverbs 1:21

Proverbs 8:3

Jeremiah 17:19

Bible References

Stand

"Shout loudly! Don't be quiet! Yell as loud as a trumpet! Confront my people with their rebellious deeds; confront Jacob's family with their sin!

"Stand in the gate of the Lord's temple and proclaim this message: 'Listen, all you people of Judah who have passed through these gates to worship the Lord. Hear what the Lord has to say.

Then Jeremiah left Topheth where the Lord had sent him to give that prophecy. He went to the Lord's temple and stood in its courtyard and called out to all the people.

When he heard Jeremiah's prophecy, he had the prophet flogged. Then he put him in the stocks which were at the Upper Gate of Benjamin in the Lord's temple.

The Lord told me, "Go down to the palace of the king of Judah. Give him a message from me there.

The Lord said, "Go stand in the courtyard of the Lord's temple. Speak out to all the people who are coming from the towns of Judah to worship in the Lord's temple. Tell them everything I command you to tell them. Do not leave out a single word!

At that time Baruch went into the temple of the Lord. He stood in the entrance of the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan who had been the royal secretary. That room was in the upper court near the entrance of the New Gate. There, where all the people could hear him, he read from the scroll what Jeremiah had said.

Now after Jesus entered the temple courts, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

Jesus replied, "I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret.

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who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.'

Moses came and told the people all the Lord's words and all the decisions. All the people answered together, "We are willing to do all the words that the Lord has said,"

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me."

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life --

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:

beside the gates opening into the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries out:

The Lord told me, "Go and stand in the People's Gate through which the kings of Judah enter and leave the city. Then go and stand in all the other gates of the city of Jerusalem.