Acts 4:17
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17 But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them (A)to speak no more to anyone in this name.”
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Acts 5:28
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28 saying, (A)“We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you (B)intend to bring this man's blood upon us.”
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1 Thessalonians 1:8
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8 For not only has the word of the Lord (A)sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth (B)everywhere, so that we need not say anything.
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Romans 15:18-22
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18 For I will not venture to speak of anything except (A)what Christ has accomplished through me (B)to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed, 19 (C)by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that (D)from Jerusalem and all the way around (E)to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ; 20 and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, (F)lest I build on someone else's foundation, 21 but as it is written,
(G)“Those who have never been told of him will see,
and those who have never heard will understand.”
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22 This is the reason why (H)I have so often been hindered from coming to you.
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Acts 5:24
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24 Now when (A)the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.
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1 Thessalonians 2:15-16
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15 (A)who killed both the Lord Jesus and (B)the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and (C)oppose all mankind 16 (D)by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always (E)to fill up the measure of their sins. But (F)wrath has come upon them at last![a]
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- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or completely, or forever
Romans 10:16-18
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16 But (A)they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, (B)“Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” 17 So (C)faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
18 But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for
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Acts 5:39-40
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39 but (A)if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You (B)might even be found opposing God!” So they took his advice, 40 and (C)when they had called in the apostles, (D)they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
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Acts 4:29-30
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Acts 4:21
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21 And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, (A)because of the people, for all were praising God (B)for what had happened.
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John 11:47-48
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Matthew 27:64
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64 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, (A)lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.”
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Micah 2:6-7
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6 (A)“Do not preach”—thus they preach—
(B)“one should not preach of such things;
(C)disgrace will not overtake us.”
7 Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
(D)Has the Lord grown impatient?[a]
Are these his deeds?
Do not my words do good
to him who walks uprightly?
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- Micah 2:7 Hebrew Has the spirit of the Lord grown short?
Amos 7:12-17
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12 And Amaziah said to Amos, (A)“O seer, go, flee away (B)to the land of Judah, and (C)eat bread there, and prophesy there, 13 but (D)never again prophesy at Bethel, for (E)it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”
14 Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, (F)“I was[a] no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but (G)I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. 15 (H)But the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ 16 (I)Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.
17 (M)Therefore thus says the Lord:
“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land (N)shall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and (O)Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”
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- Amos 7:14 Or am; twice in this verse
Amos 2:12
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12 “But you made the Nazirites (A)drink wine,
and commanded the prophets,
saying, (B)‘You shall not prophesy.’
Daniel 2:34-35
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34 As you looked, a stone was cut out (A)by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and (B)broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became (C)like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that (D)not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became (E)a great mountain (F)and filled the whole earth.
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Jeremiah 38:4
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4 Then the officials said to the king, (A)“Let this man be put to death, (B)for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking (C)the welfare of this people, but their harm.”
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Jeremiah 29:25-32
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25 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to (A)Zephaniah the son of (B)Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying, 26 ‘The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have (C)charge in the house of the Lord (D)over every madman who prophesies, to put him in (E)the stocks and neck irons. 27 Now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah (F)of Anathoth who is prophesying to you? 28 For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, “Your exile will be long; (G)build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce.”’”
29 (H)Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet. 30 (I)Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 31 “Send to all the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord concerning (J)Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because (K)Shemaiah had prophesied to you (L)when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie, 32 therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will punish (M)Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He shall not have anyone living among this people, (N)and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, declares the Lord, (O)for he has spoken rebellion against the Lord.’”
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Jeremiah 20:1-3
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Jeremiah Persecuted by Pashhur
20 Now (A)Pashhur the priest, the son of (B)Immer, who was (C)chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 2 Then (D)Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him (E)in the stocks that were in the upper (F)Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord. 3 The next day, when (G)Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call your name (H)Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side.
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Isaiah 30:8-11
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A Rebellious People
8 And now, go, (A)write it before them on a tablet
and inscribe it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come
as a witness forever.[a]
9 (B)For they are a rebellious people,
lying children,
children unwilling to hear
the instruction of the Lord;
10 (C)who say to (D)the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us (E)smooth things,
prophesy illusions,
11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:8 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Targum, Vulgate, and Greek versions; Masoretic Text forever and ever
Psalm 2:1-4
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The Reign of the Lord's Anointed
2 (A)Why do (B)the nations rage[a]
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his (C)Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us (D)burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
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- Psalm 2:1 Or nations noisily assemble
2 Chronicles 25:15-16
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15 Therefore the Lord was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of a people (A)who did not deliver their own people from your hand?” 16 But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that (B)God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
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