TOPICAL BIBLE
Zeal, Religious
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Acts 20:26Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men,Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.Acts 20:31Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.Acts 20:33I coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or clothing.Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”Acts 21:20They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.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;Acts 24:15having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.Acts 24:16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.Acts 24:17Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;Acts 24:18amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.Acts 24:19They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.Acts 24:20Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,Acts 24:21unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’”Acts 24:22But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”Acts 24:23He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.Acts 24:24But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.Acts 24:25As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”Acts 26:1Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.Acts 26:2“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,Acts 26:3especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.Acts 26:4“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;Acts 26:5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.Acts 26:6Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,Acts 26:7which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!Acts 26:8Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?Acts 26:9“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.Acts 26:10This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.Acts 26:11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.Acts 26:12“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,Acts 26:13at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.Acts 26:14When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’Acts 26:15“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.Acts 26:16But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;Acts 26:17delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’Acts 26:19“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,Acts 26:20but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.Acts 26:21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.Acts 26:22Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,Acts 26:23how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”Acts 26:24As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”Acts 26:25But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.Acts 26:26For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.Acts 26:27King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”Acts 26:28Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”Acts 26:29Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”Acts 28:23When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.Acts 28:24Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.Acts 28:25When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers,Acts 28:26saying, ‘Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.Acts 28:27For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’Acts 28:28“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations. They will also listen.”Acts 28:30Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,Acts 28:31preaching the Kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.Romans 1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,Romans 1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.Romans 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,Romans 1:10requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.