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Acts 7:30“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.Acts 7:31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,Acts 7:32‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and dared not look.Acts 7:33The Lord said to him, ‘Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.Acts 7:34I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’Acts 7:35“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.Acts 7:36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.Acts 7:37This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’Acts 7:38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,Acts 7:39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,Acts 7:40saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’Acts 7:41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.Acts 7:42But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Acts 7:43You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’Acts 7:44“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;Acts 7:45which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,Acts 7:46who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.Acts 7:47But Solomon built him a house.Acts 7:48However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,Acts 7:49‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord; ‘or what is the place of my rest?Acts 7:50Didn’t my hand make all these things?’Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.Acts 7:52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.Acts 7:53You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”Acts 7:54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.Acts 7:55But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,Acts 7:56and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”Acts 7:57But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.Acts 7:58They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.Acts 7:59They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”Acts 13:22When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’Acts 24:1After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.Acts 24:26Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often, and talked with him.Romans 13:1Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.Romans 13:2Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.Romans 13:3For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,Romans 13:4for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.Romans 13:5Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.Romans 13:6For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing.Romans 13:7Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.Titus 3:1Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,1 Peter 2:13Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;1 Peter 2:14or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.1 Peter 2:15For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:1 Peter 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.1 Peter 2:17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
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