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When the governor had motioned for him to speak, Paul replied: "Realizing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofJudgesSelf DefenceCheerfulnessMan Defending

But when two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

Verse ConceptsMen PleasersBad Decision Making ExamplesPopularityPleasing MenPopularity Sought

After he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTThe Next DayEight DaysJudgement Seat

And when Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges against him, which they could not prove.

Verse ConceptsCrimesProofsPeople Accusing People

Then when Festus had conferred with his council, he answered, "You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you shall go."

Verse ConceptsConversation

Now when a few days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus.

Verse ConceptsSpoken Greetings

When the accusers stood up, they did not charge him of such crimes as I had expected,

Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing People

but they simply had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.

Verse ConceptsChrist's LifeThe Fact Of Christ's Deathconnection

But I found that he had done nothing deserving of death; and as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to send him.

Verse ConceptsempiresDeserving Death

And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

Verse ConceptsGoadsLanguagesPainStriving With GodUnion With Christ, Significance OfLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureDuplicating WordsSharp ToolsKickingPeople Tumbling

and when they had gone aside, they began talking to one another, saying, "This man is not doing anything worthy of death or imprisonment."

And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."

Verse ConceptsPeople Releasing Others

When we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.

Verse ConceptsProvincessailing

When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete, off Salmone.

Verse ConceptsSlownessHard Tasks

As much time had been lost, and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast had already gone by, Paul advised them,

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfAtonementLossFasting RegularlyTime Passingsailing

When a gentle south wind came up, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing along Crete, close inshore.

Verse ConceptsFacing South

After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables to undergird the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along.

Verse ConceptsRopesSandShipsPropellingPutting Things Down

When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.

Verse ConceptsFatigueadvisersFasting, Examples OfPay Attention To People!Natural DisastersAbstinencesailing

But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the lifeboat into the sea, on the pretense of laying out anchors from the bow,

Verse ConceptsAnchorsMarinersBoatsServants, BadPretendingEscaping EvilIn FrontPutting Things DownColorsailing

When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.

Verse ConceptsBuoyancyAbandoning Things

When we had been brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta.

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

Verse ConceptsHeatHot ThingsFirewoodjumping

They waited, expecting him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead; but after they had waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsWaitingPossibility Of DeathPeople Changing Their MindsSwellingMen As Gods

It happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed sick with recurrent fever and dysentery; and Paul went in to see him and after he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesDiseases, Kinds OfSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfMiracles Of PaulLaying On Of HandsFeverLaying On Hands To HealHealing Sickness

When this had happened, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases also came and were cured.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesHealing Through Disciples

After three months we set sail in a ship which had wintered in the island, an Alexandrian ship, with the Twin Brothers as figurehead.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsConstellationsStarsMythologyShipsAlexandria The CityTwinsTwo To Four MonthsSea TravelTwin BrothersRelationships And Datingsailing

After three days Paul called together the local leaders of the Jews; and when they had gathered, he said to them, "Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Verse ConceptsCustomAncestorsPrisonersPlea Of InnocenceSalvation For Israel

And when they had examined me, they were willing to release me because there was no ground for putting me to death.

Verse ConceptsPeople Involved In JudgementPeople Releasing Others

But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesarnot that I had any charge to bring against my own nation.

Verse ConceptsNecessityAccusations, Nt Legal SystemPeople Accusing People

When they had appointed a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in great numbers. And he explained the matter to them from morning till evening, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.

Verse ConceptsExplanationsKingdom Of God, Coming OfMorningDealing With Many PeopleFrom Morning Till EveningChrist And The ScripturesStudying The LawWritten In The Prophets

When they disagreed among themselves, they began to leave, after Paul had made one final statement: "The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:

Verse ConceptsInspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Purpose OfSpeaking By The SpiritNamed Prophets Of The Lord

I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have some harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

Verse ConceptsHarvestPlansSowing And ReapingFruitful LabourHindering God's Work

How then was it reckoned to him? Was it after he had been circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.

Verse ConceptsRighteousness imputed

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be reckoned to them.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, spiritualPraiseSealsAbraham, God's Covenant WithAbraham, New Testament ReferencesReckoningRighteous By FaithRighteousness imputed

And he is also the father of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith which our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Had Faithfootprints

What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstethics, and graceHeart, Fallen And RedeemedJustice, In Believers' LivesKnowledge, Of SinKnowledge Of Good And EvilLaw, Purpose OfLaw, Ten CommandmentsMind, Of GodPopularityEffect Of The LawExcellent LawFar Be It!No SinThe Entrance Of SinCovetousnesslaw

But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel,

Verse ConceptsNot Defeatedisrael

And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our father Isaac,

though the twins were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might stand, not because of works but because of his call,

Verse ConceptsElection, Characteristics OfGood Or BadBirthChosen Disciples

And as Isaiah said: "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us children, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah."

Verse ConceptsRemnantSmall RemnantsPredicting The FutureSimilar Items

You are already filled! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! And indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.

Verse ConceptsComplacencyExaggerationsBitingFilling PeopleAuthority Of DisciplesGetting Rich

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I had confidence in all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

Verse ConceptsJoy, Of The ChurchOptimism

I still had no rest in my mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took my leave of them and went on to Macedonia.

Verse ConceptsPainFriendship, Examples Ofrelaxationgoodbyes

For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it.

Verse ConceptsImperfect Nature Of Human Glory

So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, he would also complete in you this work of grace.

Verse ConceptsBeginningActivity BegunMan's Work FinishedFinishing Strong

As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."

Verse ConceptsGathering MuchLittle FoodPlenty For The PoorSurplus

In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me,

Verse ConceptsGovernorsdamascus

I went up because of a revelation; and I set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who were of reputation, for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtAthleticsThe Christian RaceHeraldPrivacyPrizesResponseRunningInformation In SecretUseless LabourRaceFutile Faith

But it was because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who had slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage.

Verse Concepts4th of julySpiesToleranceSpyingFalse PeopleSubject To EvilChristian LibertyReligious FreedomFreedom

but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofPreaching, Importance OfSelf ConfidenceStewardshipEntrustingThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given which could impart life, then righteousness would indeed have come by the law.

Verse ConceptsLaw, Purpose OfSalvation Not By WorksGod OpposingFar Be It!God's Promise To AbrahamJustified By WorksLife Through Keeping The Law

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave and one by the free woman.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryAbraham, New Testament ReferencesTwo Sons

(In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean except that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

Verse ConceptsDeep ThingsChrist Going Down

for he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was ill.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingOther Sad People

I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned before, but you had no opportunity.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingCareLove, For One AnotherRight Time For PeopleOpportunityBeing ContentRenewalrevival

but after we had already suffered and been shamefully treated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in the face of great opposition.

Verse Conceptsevangelists, ministry ofInjuryInsultsMissionaries, Support ForSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfSuffering, Of BelieversPeople OpposedBeing StrongPeople Actually Doing EvilConflictBoldness

For we also have had the good news preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFaith, Nature OfHearingPreaching, Effects OfProfitsUnbelief, As Response To GodUnbelieversWordsCauses of failure inKeeping FaithHaving FaithValueevangelizingUnbelief Toward GodUnbelief Toward Christ

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had the good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FailureExclusionEntering LifeCauses of failure indisobedience

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later of another day.

Verse ConceptsRest, EternalGod Giving RestRest

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

Verse ConceptsGod HimselfSwearing

But this man whose genealogy is not derived from them received a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

Verse ConceptsGod's Promise To AbrahamTithing For PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no place sought for a second.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, the newFaultlessnessPerfect SacrificesSecond ThingMaking Mistakeslawproblemscovenant

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsSanctuaryHow To Worship GodLife In A Material WorldThe Tabernacle

For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Verse ConceptsCrimsonBranches, Types OfSprinklingWoolRed MaterialSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionLast DaysPriesthood, In NtEnd Of The AgesOnceChrist AppearingFrom The BeginningOnly OnceDoing RepeatedlyChrist AtoningRight SacrificesAppointments

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

Verse ConceptsConsciousnessSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfCessationPurifying OneselfGuiltconscience

But when he had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

Verse ConceptsAtonement, Made OnceSittingChrist, The High PriestOnceRight SidesOnly Once

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him. For before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfFaith, As Basis Of SalvationCommendationExamples Of FaithAscension Of SaintsPleasing GodGod Lifting PeopleNot DyingExploits Of FaithNowhere To Be FoundPeople Who Didn't Dietransition

And if they had been thinking of that country from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofSaints, As PilgrimsRight Time For PeopleReturning to their landOpportunitymindfulness

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfWeeksSeven DaysExploits Of FaithThings FallingFalling

Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.

Verse ConceptsBeginningBeginning Of SalvationOld ThingsChrist's Ordersa new beginningcommandments

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that it might be plain that none of them were of us.

Verse ConceptsApostatesWarnings Against ApostasyForsaking ChristDivision Among ChristiansUnrelated PeopleNot With PeopleLast Hourbelongingapostasy