Acts 24:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our ancestors, believing everything laid down according to the law or written in the prophets.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:18

O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.

Psalm 119:46

I will also speak of your decrees before kings and shall not be put to shame;

Exodus 3:15

God also said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’: This is my name forever, and this my title for all generations.

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,” and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”— they shall fall and never rise again.

Micah 4:2

and many nations shall come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Matthew 10:32

“Everyone, therefore, who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven,

Matthew 22:40

On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 7:12

“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Luke 1:70

as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,

Luke 16:16

“The Law and the Prophets were until John came; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is being proclaimed, and everyone tries to enter it by force.

Luke 16:29

Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’

Luke 24:27

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures.

Luke 24:44

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”

John 1:45

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him about whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.”

Acts 10:43

All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Acts 13:15

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the officials of the synagogue sent them a message, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, give it.”

Acts 15:5

But some believers who belonged to the sect of the Pharisees stood up and said, “It is necessary for them to be circumcised and ordered to keep the law of Moses.”

Acts 19:23

About that time no little disturbance broke out concerning the Way.

Acts 19:9

When some stubbornly refused to believe and spoke evil of the Way before the congregation, he left them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Acts 22:14

Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear his own voice,

Acts 24:22

But Felix, who was rather well informed about the Way, adjourned the hearing with the comment, “When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case.”

Acts 24:5

We have, in fact, found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Acts 25:8

Paul said in his defense, “I have in no way committed an offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against the emperor.”

Acts 26:22

To this day I have had help from God, and so I stand here, testifying to both small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would take place:

Acts 26:27

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”

Acts 26:4

“All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, a life spent from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.

Acts 26:6

And now I stand here on trial on account of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors,

Acts 28:22

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for with regard to this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against.”

Acts 28:23

After they had set a day to meet with him, they came to him at his lodgings in great numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.

Acts 3:13

The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him.

Acts 5:30

The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree.

Acts 7:32

‘I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.

Acts 9:2

and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Romans 1:9

For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospel of his Son, is my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers,

Romans 3:21

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets,

1 Corinthians 11:19

Indeed, there have to be factions among you, for only so will it become clear who among you are genuine.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions,

2 Timothy 1:3

I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.

Titus 3:10

After a first and second admonition, have nothing more to do with anyone who causes divisions,

1 Peter 1:11

inquiring about the time and circumstances that the Spirit of Christ within them indicated when it testified in advance to the sufferings intended for Christ and the subsequent glory.

Revelation 19:10

Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”