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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 16:16It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.Acts 16:17Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”Acts 16:18She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.Acts 16:19But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.Acts 16:20When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,Acts 16:21and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”Acts 16:22The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.Acts 16:23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,Acts 16:24who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.Acts 16:25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.Acts 16:26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.Acts 16:27The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.Acts 16:28But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”Acts 16:29He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,Acts 16:30and brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”Acts 16:31They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”Acts 16:32They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.Acts 16:33He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.Acts 16:34He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.Acts 16:35But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”Acts 16:36The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace.”Acts 16:37But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”Acts 16:38The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,Acts 16:39and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.Acts 16:40They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.Acts 17:22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.Acts 17:23For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.Acts 17:24The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands,Acts 17:25neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.Acts 17:26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,Acts 17:27that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.Acts 17:28‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’Acts 17:29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.Acts 17:30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”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 24:2When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,Acts 24:3we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.Acts 24:4But, that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.Acts 24:5For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.Acts 24:6He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.Acts 24:7Acts 24:8By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”Acts 24:9The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.Acts 24:10When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,Acts 24:11seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.Acts 24:12In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.Acts 24:13Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.Acts 24:14But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;