Acts 21:20

New Century Version

When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul, “Brother, you can see that many thousands of our people have become believers. And they think it is very important to obey the law of Moses.

Cross References

Psalm 22:23

Praise the Lord, all you who respect him. All you descendants of Jacob, honor him; fear him, all you Israelites.

Psalm 22:27

People everywhere will remember and will turn to the Lord. All the families of the nations will worship him

Matthew 9:8

When the people saw this, they were amazed and praised God for giving power like this to human beings.

Luke 12:1

So many thousands of people had gathered that they were stepping on each other. Jesus spoke first to his followers, saying, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, because they are hypocrites.

Luke 15:32

We had to celebrate and be happy because your brother was dead, but now he is alive. He was lost, but now he is found.’ ”

John 12:24

I tell you the truth, a grain of wheat must fall to the ground and die to make many seeds. But if it never dies, it remains only a single seed.

Acts 11:18

When the believers heard this, they stopped arguing. They praised God and said, “So God is allowing even other nations to turn to him and live.”

Acts 15:1

Then some people came to Antioch from Judea and began teaching the non-Jewish believers: “You cannot be saved if you are not circumcised as Moses taught us.”

Acts 15:24

We have heard that some of our group have come to you and said things that trouble and upset you. But we did not tell them to do this.

Acts 15:5

But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisee group came forward and said, “The non-Jewish believers must be circumcised. They must be told to obey the law of Moses.”

Acts 2:41

Then those people who accepted what Peter said were baptized. About three thousand people were added to the number of believers that day.

Acts 22:3

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in the country of Cilicia, but I grew up in this city. I was a student of Gamaliel, who carefully taught me everything about the law of our ancestors. I was very serious about serving God, just as are all of you here today.

Acts 4:21

The leaders warned the apostles again and let them go free. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had been done.

Acts 4:4

But many of those who had heard Peter and John preach believed the things they said. There were now about five thousand in the group of believers.

Acts 6:7

The word of God was continuing to spread. The group of followers in Jerusalem increased, and a great number of the Jewish priests believed and obeyed.

Romans 10:2

I can say this about them: They really try to follow God, but they do not know the right way.

Galatians 1:14

I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion, doing better than most other Jews of my age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the teachings handed down by our ancestors.

Galatians 1:24

And these believers praised God because of me.

2 Thessalonians 1:10

This will happen on the day when the Lord Jesus comes to receive glory because of his holy people. And all the people who have believed will be amazed at Jesus. You will be in that group, because you believed what we told you.