Acts 17:17
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17 So he argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons and also in the marketplace[a] every day with those who happened to be there.
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- 17.17 Or civic center
Acts 17:2-4
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2 And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days argued with them from the scriptures,(A) 3 explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Messiah[a] to suffer and to rise from the dead and saying, “This is the Messiah,[b] Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you.”(B) 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.(C)
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Acts 14:1-4
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Paul and Barnabas in Iconium
14 The same thing occurred in Iconium, where Paul[a] and Barnabas[b] went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks became believers. 2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. 3 So they remained for a long time speaking boldly for the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace by granting signs and wonders to be done through them.(A) 4 But the residents of the city were divided: some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.(B)
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Acts 13:16
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16 So Paul stood up and with a gesture began to speak:
“Fellow Israelites[a] and others who fear God, listen.
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- 13.16 Gk Men, Israelites
Acts 9:20
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20 and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”
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Luke 12:3
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3 Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops.
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Mark 16:15
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15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news[a] to the whole creation.
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- 16.15 Or gospel
Matthew 5:1-2
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The Beatitudes
5 When Jesus[a] saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him.(A) 2 And he began to speak and taught them, saying:
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- 5.1 Gk he
Proverbs 8:34
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34 Happy is the one who listens to me,
watching daily at my gates,
waiting beside my doors.(A)
Proverbs 8:1-4
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The Gifts of Wisdom
8 Does not wisdom call
and understanding raise her voice?(A)
2 On the heights, beside the way,
at the crossroads she takes her stand;
3 beside the gates in front of the town,
at the entrance of the portals she cries out:(B)
4 “To you, O people, I call,
and my cry is to all who live.
2 Timothy 3:5
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5 holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!
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2 Timothy 3:2
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2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,(A)
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Acts 10:2
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2 He was a devout man who feared God with all his household; he gave alms generously to the people and prayed constantly to God.
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Acts 8:2
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2 Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.(A)
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Jeremiah 6:11
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11 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
I am weary of holding it in.
Pour it out on the children in the street
and on the gatherings of young men as well;
both husband and wife shall be taken,
the elderly and those full of days.(A)
Proverbs 1:20-22
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The Call of Wisdom
20 Wisdom cries out in the street;
in the squares she raises her voice.(A)
21 At the busiest corner she cries out;
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?(B)
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