Acts 24:25
As 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.”
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Acts 24:25
As 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.”
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Acts 24:22
But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”
Acts 24:23
He 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 24:24
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 24:25
As 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 24:26
Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.
Acts 24:27
But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
Acts 23:24
He asked them to provide mounts, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
Acts 23:35
“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.
Acts 24:10
When 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,
Jeremiah 37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Acts 28:16
When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
Acts 28:30
Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,
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2 Peter 1:5
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
2 Peter 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness;
2 Peter 1:7
and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
Galatians 5:23
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Proverbs 16:32
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
Proverbs 25:28
Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
Proverbs 23:1
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
Romans 6:12
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
1 Corinthians 6:12
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
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Mark 6:18
For John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
Mark 6:19
Herodias set herself against him and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
Mark 6:20
for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
Mark 6:21
Then a convenient day came when Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
Mark 6:22
When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”
Mark 6:23
He swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”
Mark 6:24
She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
1 Kings 21:19
You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?” ’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”
1 Kings 21:20
Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
Leviticus 18:16
“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.
Leviticus 20:21
“ ‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.
2 Samuel 12:7
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
Matthew 14:4
For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
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Acts 17:30
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Acts 17:31
because 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.”
Psalms 50:4
He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Psalms 50:5
“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
Psalms 50:6
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
Acts 24:15
having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Romans 1:32
who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,
Romans 2:6
who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
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Acts 2:37
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 16:29
He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
Isaiah 66:2
For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
Psalms 38:4
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
Psalms 119:120
My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.
Habakkuk 3:16
I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
1 Samuel 16:4
Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”
Ezra 10:3
Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.
Psalms 99:1
Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.
Isaiah 32:11
Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
Hosea 6:5
Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
Hosea 11:10
They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
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Acts 17:2
Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Acts 18:4
He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
Acts 18:19
He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
Acts 19:8
He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.
Acts 19:9
But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
Acts 17:17
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
Acts 20:9
A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.
Acts 24:12
In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city.
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Acts 17:32
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
1 Samuel 12:7
Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.
Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
Hebrews 3:7
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
Isaiah 41:21
Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
Ezekiel 33:9
Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
Hebrews 12:25
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Proverbs 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
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Titus 2:2
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance,
Titus 1:8
but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,
1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion.
Proverbs 23:2
put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 25:16
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
Philippians 1:11
being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
1 Timothy 6:11
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
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James 4:13
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
James 4:14
Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
Proverbs 27:1
Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
Isaiah 56:12
“Come,” they say, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”
Amos 6:3
Alas for you who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,
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John 16:8
When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
John 16:9
about sin, because they don’t believe in me;
John 16:10
about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;
John 16:11
about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
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Acts 26:28
Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”
Mark 10:17
As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
Mark 10:18
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God.
Mark 10:19
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”
Mark 10:20
He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”
Mark 10:21
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”
Mark 10:22
But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.
Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
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Acts 9:5
He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Acts 9:6
But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”
Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 51:3
For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
Psalms 73:21
For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Jeremiah 5:22
Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’
Jeremiah 36:16
Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”
Hosea 6:4
“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
Acts 16:30
brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
1 Corinthians 14:24
But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
James 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.
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Luke 14:18
They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
Acts 28:27
For 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, then I would heal them.’
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Hebrews 3:8
don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
Hosea 10:12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
John 12:43
for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
Acts 26:24
As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Wake up righteously and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
Hebrews 3:13
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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Genesis 19:16
But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
Matthew 8:21
Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
Luke 9:61
Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”
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2 Corinthians 5:11
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
Revelation 20:12
I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Revelation 20:13
The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Hebrews 6:2
of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Hebrews 9:27
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
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Isaiah 30:10
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
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Acts 7:14
Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
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Acts 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
Acts 16:31
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
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