'People' in the Bible

A Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered the men to be taken outside for a little while.

Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; so they came, dragged him off, and took him to the Sanhedrin.

Joseph then invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, 75 people in all,

“As the time was drawing near to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt

I have observed the oppression of My people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to rescue them. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and astounded the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.

“Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.

He was a devout man and feared God along with his whole household. He did many charitable deeds for the Jewish people and always prayed to God.

not by all the people, but by us, witnesses appointed beforehand by God, who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to solemnly testify that He is the One appointed by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.

for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And large numbers of people were added to the Lord.

After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from all that the Jewish people expected.”

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you can speak.”

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, exalted the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty arm.

Before He came to public attention, John had previously proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

and He appeared for many days to those who came with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.

But the people of the city were divided, some siding with the Jews and some with the apostles.

Simeon has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

“Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,

For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”

“This man,” they said, “persuades people to worship God contrary to the law!”

Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods!

Though Paul wanted to go in before the people, the disciples did not let him.

Then some of the crowd gave Alexander advice when the Jews pushed him to the front. So motioning with his hand, Alexander wanted to make his defense to the people.

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. What’s more, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has profaned this holy place.”

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple complex, and at once the gates were shut.

for the mass of people followed, yelling, “Take him away!”

Paul said, “I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, let me speak to the people.”

After he had given permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people. When there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language: >

For you will be a witness for Him to all people of what you have seen and heard.

“I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest,” replied Paul. “For it is written, You must not speak evil of a ruler of your people.”

I will rescue you from the people and from the Gentiles. I now send you to them

that the Messiah must suffer, and that as the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

The local people showed us extraordinary kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all in, since it was raining and cold.

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man is probably a murderer, and though he has escaped the sea, Justice does not allow him to live!”

After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them: “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

when He said,Go to these people and say:You will listen and listen,yet never understand;and you will look and look,yet never perceive.

For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,

For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!

As He also says in Hosea:I will call Not My People, My People,and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

And it will be in the place where they were told,you are not My people,there they will be called sons of the living God.

But to Israel he says: All day long I have spread out My hands to a disobedient and defiant people.

I ask, then, has God rejected His people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

Again it says: Rejoice, you Gentiles, with His people!

for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers?

I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.

I wish that all people were just like me. But each has his own gift from God, one person in this way and another in that way.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

Although I am a free man and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.

To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.

Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.

Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.

I am speaking as to wise people. Judge for yourselves what I say.

Look at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in what is offered on the altar?

just as I also try to please all people in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, so that they may be saved. >

But the person who prophesies speaks to people for edification, encouragement, and consolation.

It is written in the law:I will speak to these peopleby people of other languagesand by the lips of foreigners,and even then, they will not listen to Me,says the Lord.

Therefore, if the whole church assembles together and all are speaking in other languages and people who are uninformed or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at His coming, those who belong to Christ.

Otherwise what will they do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are people baptized for them?

Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

also to submit to such people, and to everyone who works and labors with them.

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore recognize such people.

Indeed, everything is for your benefit, so that grace, extended through more and more people, may cause thanksgiving to increase to God’s glory.

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we seek to persuade people. We are completely open before God, and I hope we are completely open to your consciences as well.

And what agreement does God’s sanctuary have with idols? For we are the sanctuary of the living God, as God said:I will dwell among themand walk among them,and I will be their God,and they will be My people.

I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are behaving in an unspiritual way.

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

On frequent journeys, I faceddangers from rivers,dangers from robbers,dangers from my own people,dangers from the Gentiles,dangers in the city,dangers in the open country,dangers on the sea,and dangers among false brothers;

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

But we did not give up and submit to these people for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would be preserved for you.

This was not made known to people in other generations as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:

For it says:When He ascended on high,He took prisoners into captivity;He gave gifts to people.

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—

and we didn’t seek glory from people, either from you or from others.

For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from the Jews

Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ that quietly working, they may eat their own food.

As I urged you when I went to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus so that you may instruct certain people not to teach different doctrine

But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to act in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

By professing it, some people have deviated from the faith.Grace be with all of you.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!