Acts 24:21

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

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

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.”

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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

About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

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

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

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

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

But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

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

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

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

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.

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

Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

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.

Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

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

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.

“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.”

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.”

Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

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,

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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

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

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’ ”

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”

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

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.

Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

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

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

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

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.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

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.

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.

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

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

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.”

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

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

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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