But if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that 'every matter may be established by the word of two or three witnesses.'

So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead meant.

In the house his disciples also asked him again about this matter.

You have no part or share in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

The apostles and the elders came together to consider this matter.

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;

but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things."

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.

He is a Jew who is one inwardly; and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, and not by the written code. His praise is not from men but from God.

For behold what this very thing, godly sorrow, has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what readiness to see justice done! At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

And in this matter I give my advice: it is best for you now to complete what a year ago you began not only to do but to desire.

You yourselves also know, Philippians, that in the first preaching of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;

and that no man transgress and wrong his brother in this matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.

First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,