Acts 21:30

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

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.

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

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

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 when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

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

Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, “if he comes to you, receive him”),

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

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

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

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 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.

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

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”

So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.

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.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.

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.

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,

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

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

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.

God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, and cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us?

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’ ” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.

You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city

The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

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;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.