TOPICAL BIBLE
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Acts 22:28“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.Acts 22:29At once those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.Acts 22:30The next day the commander, wanting to learn the real reason Paul was accused by the Jews, released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to assemble. Then he brought Paul down and had him stand before them.Acts 23:11The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.”Acts 23:12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.Acts 23:13More than forty of them were involved in this plot.Acts 23:14They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.Acts 23:15Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”Acts 23:16But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.Acts 23:17Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.”Acts 23:18So the centurion took him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner sent and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”Acts 23:19The commander took the young man by the hand, drew him aside, and asked, “What do you need to tell me?”Acts 23:20He answered, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul to the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of acquiring more information about him.Acts 23:21Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”Acts 23:22So the commander dismissed the young man and instructed him, “Do not tell anyone that you have reported this to me.”Acts 23:23Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.Acts 23:24Provide mounts for Paul to take him safely to Governor Felix.”Acts 23:25And he wrote the following letter:Acts 23:26Claudius Lysias, To His Excellency, Governor Felix: Greetings.Acts 23:27This man was seized by the Jews, and they were about to kill him when I came with my troops to rescue him. For I had learned that he is a Roman citizen,Acts 23:28and since I wanted to understand their charges against him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin.Acts 23:29I found that the accusation involved questions about their own law, but there was no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.Acts 23:30When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also instructed his accusers to present their case against him before you.Acts 23:31So the soldiers followed their orders and brought Paul by night to Antipatris.Acts 23:32The next day they returned to the barracks and let the horsemen go on with him.Acts 23:33When the horsemen arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and presented Paul to him.Acts 23:34The governor read the letter and asked what province Paul was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia,Acts 23:35he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.Acts 26:14We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’Acts 26:15‘Who are You, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.Acts 26:16‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.Acts 26:17I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to themActs 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’Acts 28:1Once we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.Acts 28:2The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.Acts 28:3Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand.Acts 28:4When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”Acts 28:5But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.Acts 28:6The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.Acts 28:7Nearby stood an estate belonging to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.Acts 28:8The father of Publius was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him, and after praying and placing his hands on him, he healed the man.Acts 28:9After this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured as well.Acts 28:10The islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.Romans 1:1Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—Romans 1:14I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.Romans 1:15That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.Romans 2:19if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,Romans 2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—Romans 2:21you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?Romans 2:22You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?Romans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?Romans 2:24As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”Romans 2:25Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.Romans 10:14How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?Romans 10:15And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”Romans 12:3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.Romans 12:4Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,Romans 12:5so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.Romans 12:6We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;Romans 12:7if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach;