Acts 23:6

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

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.

unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’ ”

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

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

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.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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.

She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.

Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

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

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

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

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

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

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.

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

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.

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”

As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.