Acts 24:25

New American Bible - revised edition

But as he spoke about righteousness and self-restraint and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “You may go for now; when I find an opportunity I shall summon you again.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:3

The God of Israel spoke; of me the Rock of Israel said, “One who rules over humankind with justice, who rules in the fear of God,

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his garments and put on sackcloth over his bare flesh. He fasted, slept in the sackcloth, and went about subdued.

2 Kings 22:19

because you were heartsick and have humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken concerning this place and its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse; and because you tore your garments and wept before me, I in turn have heard, oracle of the Lord.

Ezra 10:3

Let us therefore enter into a covenant before our God to dismiss all our foreign wives and the children born of them, in keeping with what you, my lord, advise, and those who are in dread of the commandments of our God. Let it be done according to the law!

Ezra 10:9

All the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered together in Jerusalem within the three-day period: it was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. All the people, sitting in the open place before the house of God, were trembling both over the matter at hand and because it was raining.

Job 29:14

I wore my righteousness like a garment; justice was my robe and my turban.

Psalm 11:7

The Lord is just and loves just deeds; the upright will see his face.

Psalm 119:120

My flesh shudders with dread of you; I fear your judgments.

Psalm 45:7

Your throne, O God, stands forever; your royal scepter is a scepter for justice.

Psalm 72:2

O God, give your judgment to the king; your justice to the king’s son; That he may govern your people with justice, your oppressed with right judgment,

Psalm 99:1

The Lord is king, the peoples tremble; he is enthroned on the cherubim, the earth quakes.

Proverbs 16:12

Wrongdoing is an abomination to kings, for by justice the throne endures.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O youth, while you are young and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart, the vision of your eyes; Yet understand regarding all this that God will bring you to judgment.

Ecclesiastes 12:14

because God will bring to judgment every work, with all its hidden qualities, whether good or bad.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

But profitable for a land in such circumstances is a king concerned about cultivation.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us set things right, says the Lord: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be red like crimson, they may become white as wool.

Isaiah 1:21

How she has become a prostitute, the faithful city, so upright! Justice used to lodge within her, but now, murderers.

Isaiah 16:5

A throne shall be set up in mercy, and on it shall sit in fidelity, in David’s tent, A judge upholding right, prompt to do justice.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you who are so complacent! Shudder, you who are so confident! Strip yourselves bare, with only a loincloth for cover.

Isaiah 41:21

Present your case, says the Lord; bring forward your arguments, says the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.

Isaiah 61:8

For I, the Lord, love justice, I hate robbery and wrongdoing; I will faithfully give them their recompense, an everlasting covenant I will make with them.

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made all these things when all of them came to be—oracle of the Lord. This is the one whom I approve: the afflicted one, crushed in spirit, who trembles at my word.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do what is right and just. Rescue the victims from the hand of their oppressors. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 23:29

Is not my word like fire—oracle of the Lord— like a hammer shattering rock?

Jeremiah 36:16

and when they had heard all its words, they turned to each other in alarm and said to Baruch, “We have to tell the king all these things.”

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right! Stop evicting my people!—oracle of the Lord God. Weights and Measures.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; Some to everlasting life, others to reproach and everlasting disgrace.

Daniel 4:27

the king said, “Babylon the great! Was it not I, with my great strength, who built it as a royal residence for my splendor and majesty?”

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was slain:

Hosea 10:12

“Sow for yourselves justice, reap the reward of loyalty; Break up for yourselves a new field, for it is time to seek the Lord, till he comes and rains justice upon you.”

Hosea 10:4

They make promises, swear false oaths, and make covenants, While lawsuits sprout like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field!

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king, they made the princes sick with poisoned wine; he extended his hand to the scoffers.

Amos 5:24

Rather let justice surge like waters, and righteousness like an unfailing stream.

Amos 6:12

Can horses run over rock, or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Habakkuk 3:16

I hear, and my body trembles; at the sound, my lips quiver. Decay invades my bones, my legs tremble beneath me. I await the day of distress that will come upon the people who attack us.

Haggai 1:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts: This people has said: “Now is not the time to rebuild the house of the Lord.”

Matthew 22:5

Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

John 16:8

And when he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation:

Acts 10:42

He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

Acts 17:13

But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had now been proclaimed by Paul in Beroea also, they came there too to cause a commotion and stir up the crowds.

Acts 17:2

Following his usual custom, Paul joined them, and for three sabbaths he entered into discussions with them from the scriptures,

Acts 17:32

When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We should like to hear you on this some other time.”

Acts 2:37

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?”

Acts 24:15

I have the same hope in God as they themselves have that there will be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous.

Acts 24:26

At the same time he hoped that a bribe would be offered him by Paul, and so he sent for him very often and conversed with him.

Acts 26:28

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You will soon persuade me to play the Christian.”

Acts 9:6

Now get up and go into the city and you will be told what you must do.”

Romans 12:1

I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.

Romans 14:12

So [then] each of us shall give an account of himself [to God]. Consideration for the Weak Conscience.

Romans 2:16

on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge people’s hidden works through Christ Jesus. Judgment by the Mosaic Law.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore, do not make any judgment before the appointed time, until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then everyone will receive praise from God. Paul’s Life as Pattern.

2 Corinthians 5:10

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil. The Ministry of Reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For he says: “In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Galatians 3:22

But scripture confined all things under the power of sin, that through faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe. What Faith Has Brought Us.

Galatians 5:23

gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

2 Timothy 4:1

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingly power:

Titus 1:8

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled,

Hebrews 12:21

Indeed, so fearful was the spectacle that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”

Hebrews 3:13

Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,” so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.

Hebrews 4:1

Therefore, let us be on our guard while the promise of entering into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed.

Hebrews 6:2

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

Hebrews 9:27

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,

James 2:19

You believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe that and tremble.

1 Peter 3:15

but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope,

2 Peter 1:6

knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion,

1 John 3:10

In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:7

Children, let no one deceive you. The person who acts in righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.

1 Samuel 12:7

Now take your stand, that I may judge you in the presence of the Lord according to all the gracious acts that the Lord has done for you and your ancestors.