TOPICAL BIBLE
Zeal, Religious
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Acts 20:26wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all,Acts 20:27for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.Acts 20:31‘Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;Acts 20:33‘The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;Acts 20:34and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;Acts 21:13and Paul answered, ‘What do ye—weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;’Acts 21:20and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, ‘Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,Acts 24:14‘And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,Acts 24:15having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;Acts 24:16and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.Acts 24:17‘And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,Acts 24:18in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,Acts 24:19whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,Acts 24:20or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,Acts 24:21except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them—Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.’Acts 24:22And having heard these things, Felix delayed them—having known more exactly of the things concerning the way—saying, ‘When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;’Acts 24:23having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let him also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him.Acts 24:24And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ,Acts 24:25and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, ‘For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;’Acts 26:1And Agrippa said unto Paul, ‘It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;’ then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence:Acts 26:2‘Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,Acts 26:3especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things—both customs and questions—among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.Acts 26:4‘The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth—which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem—know do all the Jews,Acts 26:5knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;Acts 26:6and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,Acts 26:7to which our twelve tribes, intently night and day serving, do hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews;Acts 26:8why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?Acts 26:9I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved me many things to do,Acts 26:10which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them,Acts 26:11and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining them to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting them even unto strange cities.Acts 26:12‘In which things, also, going on to Damascus—with authority and commission from the chief priests—Acts 26:13at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light—and those going on with me;Acts 26:14and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick!Acts 26:15‘And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute;Acts 26:16but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things in which I will appear to thee,Acts 26:17delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,Acts 26:18to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.Acts 26:19‘Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,Acts 26:20but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;Acts 26:21because of these things the Jews—having caught me in the temple—were endeavouring to kill me.Acts 26:22‘Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,Acts 26:23that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.’Acts 26:24And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, ‘Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;’Acts 26:25and he saith, ‘I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;Acts 26:26for the king doth know concerning these things, before whom also I speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing hath not been done in a corner;Acts 26:27thou dost believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that thou dost believe!’Acts 26:28And Agrippa said unto Paul, ‘In a little thou dost persuade me to become a Christian!’Acts 26:29and Paul said, ‘I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only thee, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am—except these bonds.’Acts 28:23and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,Acts 28:24and, some, indeed, were believing the things spoken, and some were not believing.Acts 28:25And not being agreed with one another, they were going away, Paul having spoken one word—‘Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,Acts 28:26saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,Acts 28:27for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them.Acts 28:28‘Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;’Acts 28:30and Paul remained an entire two years in his own hired house, and was receiving all those coming in unto him,Acts 28:31preaching the reign of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness—unforbidden.Romans 1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God—Romans 1:8first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in 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,Romans 1:10always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you,