TOPICAL BIBLE
Paul
607 references in this topic.
Acts 17:16and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,Acts 17:17therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.Acts 17:18And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, ‘What would this seed picker wish to say?’ and others, ‘Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;’ because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,Acts 17:19having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought him, saying, ‘Are we able to know what is this new teaching that is spoken by thee,Acts 17:20for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;’Acts 17:21and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.Acts 17:22And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, ‘Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;Acts 17:23for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God—unknown; whom, therefore—not knowing—ye do worship, this One I announce to you.Acts 17:24‘God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,Acts 17:25neither by the hands of men is He served—needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;Acts 17:26He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth—having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings—Acts 17:27to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find,—though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,Acts 17:28for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.Acts 17:29‘Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;Acts 17:30the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,Acts 17:31because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.’Acts 17:32And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, ‘We will hear thee again concerning this;’Acts 17:33and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,Acts 17:34and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom is also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.Acts 18:1And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,Acts 18:2and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife—because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome—he came to them,Acts 18:3and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;Acts 18:4and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.Acts 18:5And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;Acts 18:6and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, ‘Your blood is upon your head—I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.’Acts 18:7And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue,Acts 18:8and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.Acts 18:9And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, ‘Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent;Acts 18:10because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;’Acts 18:11and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.Acts 18:12And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord upon Paul, and brought him unto the tribunal,Acts 18:13saying—‘Against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God;’Acts 18:14and Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, ‘If, indeed, then, it was anything unrighteous, or an act of wicked profligacy, O Jews, according to reason I had borne with you,Acts 18:15but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look ye yourselves to it, for a judge of these things I do not wish to be,’Acts 18:16and he drave them from the tribunal;Acts 18:17and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating him before the tribunal, and not even for these things was Gallio caring.Acts 18:18And Paul having remained yet a good many days, having taken leave of the brethren, was sailing to Syria—and with him are Priscilla and Aquilas—having shorn his head in Cenchera, for he had a vow;Acts 18:19and he came down to Ephesus, and did leave them there, and he himself having entered into the synagogue did reason with the Jews:Acts 18:20and they having requested him to remain a longer time with them, he did not consent,Acts 18:21but took leave of them, saying, ‘It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you—God willing.’ And he sailed from Ephesus,Acts 18:22and having come down to Caesarea, having gone up, and having saluted the assembly, he went down to Antioch.Acts 18:23And having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.Acts 19:12so that even unto the ailing were brought from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the sicknesses departed from them; the evil spirits also went forth from them.Acts 19:13And certain of the wandering exorcist Jews, took upon them to name over those having the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, ‘We adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul doth preach;’Acts 19:14and there were certain—seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest—who are doing this thing;Acts 19:15and the evil spirit, answering, said, ‘Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with; and ye—who are ye?’Acts 19:16And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaping upon them, and having overcome them, prevailed against them, so that naked and wounded they did flee out of that house,Acts 19:17and this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who are dwelling at Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified,Acts 19:18many also of those who did believe were coming, confessing and declaring their acts,Acts 19:19and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning them before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found it five myriads of silverlings;Acts 19:20so powerfully was the word of God increasing and prevailing.Acts 19:21And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the Spirit, having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, to go on to Jerusalem, saying—‘After my being there, it behoveth me also to see Rome;’Acts 19:22and having sent to Macedonia two of those ministering to him—Timotheus and Erastus—he himself stayed a time in Asia.Acts 19:23And there came, at that time, not a little stir about the way,Acts 19:24for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the artificers gain not a little,Acts 19:25whom, having brought in a crowd together, and those who did work about such things, he said, ‘Men, ye know that by this work we have our wealth;Acts 19:26and ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, did turn away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods who are made by hands;Acts 19:27and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard, but also, that of the great goddess Artemis the temple is to be reckoned for nothing, and also her greatness is about to be brought down, whom all Asia and the world doth worship.’Acts 19:28And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, ‘Great is the Artemis of the Ephesians!’Acts 19:29and the whole city was filled with confusion, they rushed also with one accord into the theatre, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul’s fellow-travellers.