Acts 6:12

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

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

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

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

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

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

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

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

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

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

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

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.

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.

Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

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

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

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;

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

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,

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

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

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.

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

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

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.

When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

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 disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

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,