Acts 18:13

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

“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.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

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

He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs.

For 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.

For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’ ”

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”

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.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.

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

while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

They said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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.

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.