Acts 18:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:16

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord’s anointed.’ ”

1 Kings 2:33

So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever, but to David, and to his descendants, and to his house, and to his throne there shall be peace from the Lord forevermore.”

Nehemiah 5:13

I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out everyone from house and from property who does not perform this promise. Thus may they be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.

Ezekiel 18:13

takes advance or accrued interest, shall he then live? He shall not. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely be put to death; his blood shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 33:4

then if any who hear the sound of the trumpet do not take warning and the sword comes and takes them away, their blood shall be upon their own heads.

Ezekiel 33:6

But if the sentinel sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any of them, they are taken away in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at the sentinel’s hand.

Leviticus 20:9

All who curse father or mother shall be put to death; having cursed father or mother, their bloodguilt is upon them.

Matthew 10:14

If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.

Matthew 21:41

They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.”

Matthew 21:43

“Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces its fruits.

Matthew 22:10

Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad, so the wedding hall was filled with guests.

Matthew 27:25

Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Matthew 8:11

I tell you, many will come from east and west and will take their places at the banquet with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,

Luke 22:65

They kept heaping many other insults on him.

Luke 9:5

Wherever they do not welcome you, as you are leaving that town shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

Acts 13:51

So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

Acts 26:11

By punishing them often in all the synagogues I tried to force them to blaspheme, and since I was so furiously enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

Acts 26:20

but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout the countryside of Judea, and also to the gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do deeds consistent with repentance.

Acts 28:28

“Let it be known to you, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the gentiles; they will listen.”

Romans 3:29

Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of gentiles also? Yes, of gentiles also,

1 Timothy 5:22

Do not ordain anyone hastily, and do not participate in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.

2 Timothy 2:25

correcting opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth

1 Peter 4:14

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory, which is the Spirit of God, is resting on you.

1 Peter 4:4

They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.