Acts 25:15

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

“If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

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

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.”

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,

He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

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

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

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,

that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.