Acts 6:13
Greek Text— Acts 6:13and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
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He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
“From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.
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.”
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
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.
He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’
but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
“Forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate.
But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
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,
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.
“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”
The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,
They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”
Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”
But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”
God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”
Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.” But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.
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.
crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”
He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
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.
while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”
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.