Acts 23:9

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

Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

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

Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

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.”

I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

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

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

Yahweh said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”

“Take him, and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you.”

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”

Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

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!”

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”

Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”

As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

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

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,

When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you speak well.”

Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”

He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”

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

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.