Acts 17:13

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,

But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

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.”

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.