For David spoke concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hades, neither his flesh did see corruption.

But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled.

And he shall send Jesus Christ, who before was preached unto you:

Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him does this man stand here before you whole.

To do whatsoever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.

Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing outside before the doors: but when we had opened it, we found no man within.

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and came to nothing.

Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Joshua into the possession of the nations, which God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them who showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:

The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

But the Lord said unto him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Your prayers and your alms are come up for a memorial before God.

Now while Peter wondered in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men who were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

Immediately therefore I sent to you; and you have done well that you are come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded you of God.

Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.

And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the guards before the door kept the prison.

And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.

When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Then the priest of Jupiter, being before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,

And when he had brought them into his house, he sat food before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.

And has made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

But when some were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, arguing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

Many of them also who used magic arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

These going before tarried for us at Troas.

(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

Are not you that Egyptian, who before these days made an uproar, and led out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

On the next day, because he would have known the certainty of why he was accused of the Jews, he released him, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

Now therefore you with the council inform the chief captain that he bring him down unto you tomorrow, as though you would inquire something more exactly concerning him: and we, before he comes near, are ready to kill him.

And when it was told me that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent immediately to you, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before you what they had against him. Farewell.

When they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, they presented Paul also before him.

Who ought to have been here before you, and object, if they had anything against me.

Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,

But Festus, willing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul, and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before he that is accused have the accusers face to face, and have opportunity to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before you, O king Agrippa, that, after examination, I might have somewhat to write.

I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before you concerning all the things of which I am accused of the Jews:

For the king knows of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.

Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God has given you all them that sail with you.

(Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

What then? are we better than they? No, in no way: for we have before proved both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that whatsoever things the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he has something in which to boast; but not before God.

(As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which are not as though they were.

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared unto glory,

And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of hosts had left us a descendant, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.

But why do you judge your brother? or why do you despise your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Have you faith? have it to yourself before God. Happy is he that condemns not himself in that thing which he allows.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and you be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience's sake.

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that you might have a second benefit;

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may be recompensed for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether it be good or bad.

I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die and live with you.

For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found to be truth.

And in this I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to desire a year ago.

Therefore show to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your gift, of which you had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of gift, and not as an extortion.

Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

I told you before, and tell you again, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who earlier have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed.

Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them who were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

For before certain men came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been openly set forth, crucified among you?

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed.

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of no effect.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote before in few words,

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

And he is before all things, and by him all things are held together.

But even after we had suffered before, and were shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much opposition.

For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and you know.

For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we joy for your sakes before our God;

To the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and insolent: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Against an elder receive not an accusation, unless before two or three witnesses.

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

Some men's sins are evident beforehand, going before them to judgment; and some men they follow after.