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Acts 23:12

Contemporary English Version 1995

The next morning more than 40 Jewish men got together and vowed that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

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As soon as I learned that there was a plot against him, I sent him to you and told their leaders to bring charges against him in your court.

But please don't do what they say. More than 40 men are going to attack Paul. They have made a vow not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him. Even now they are waiting to hear what you decide.”

Then some of them went to the chief priests and the nation's leaders and said, “We have promised God that we would not eat a thing until we have killed Paul.

I hear the crowds whisper, “Everyone is afraid!” They are plotting and scheming to murder me.

if he would be willing to bring Paul to Jerusalem. They begged him to do this because they were planning to attack and kill Paul on the way.

But then the Lord told me that they had planned to chop me down like a tree— fruit and all— so that no one would ever remember me again.

They planned how they could sneak around and have Jesus arrested and put to death.

He said, “I pray that God will punish me terribly, if Elisha's head is still on his shoulders by this time tomorrow.”

But Christ rescued us from the Law's curse, when he became a curse in our place. This is because the Scriptures say that anyone who is nailed to a tree is under a curse.

I pray that God will put a curse on everyone who doesn't love the Lord. And may the Lord come soon.

She sent a message to Elijah: “You killed my prophets. Now I'm going to kill you! I pray that the gods will punish me even more severely if I don't do it by this time tomorrow.”

Everyone answered, “We and our own families will take the blame for his death!”

Peter began to curse and swear, “I don't know that man!” Right then a rooster crowed,

and the Lord will show who stole what should have been destroyed. That man must be put to death, his body burned, and his possessions thrown into the fire. He has done a terrible thing by breaking the sacred agreement that the Lord made with Israel.”

After Jericho was destroyed, Joshua warned the people, “Someday a man will rebuild Jericho, but the Lord will put a curse on him, and the man's oldest son will die when he starts to build the town wall. And by the time he finishes the wall and puts gates in it, all his children will be dead.”

In fact, any humans who have been promised to me in this way must be put to death.

The Lord had said that everything in Jericho belonged to him. But Achan from the Judah tribe took some of the things from Jericho for himself. And so the Lord was angry with the Israelites, because one of them had disobeyed him.

But before he got there, they saw him coming and made plans to kill him.

Later some of them made plans to kill Saul,

but he found out about it. He learned that they were guarding the gates of the city day and night in order to kill him.

During my many travels, I have been in danger from rivers, robbers, my own people, and foreigners. My life has been in danger in cities, in deserts, at sea, and with people who only pretended to be the Lord's followers.

They keep us from speaking his message to the Gentiles and from leading them to be saved. They have always gone too far with their sins. Now God has finally become angry and will punish them.

Mordecai found out about their plans and asked Queen Esther to tell the king what he had found out.




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