Acts 26:20 Cross References - Goodspeed

²⁰ but first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem and then all over Judea, and even to the heathen I preached that they must repent and turn to God and live as men who have repented should.

² "Repent!" he said, "for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming!"

⁸ Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance!

¹⁷ From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent! for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming!"

¹³ You must go and learn what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for.' I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

³⁰ Then the man went to the second son, and told him the same thing. And he answered, 'I will not!' But afterward he changed his mind and went. ³¹ Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They said, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I tell you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you. ³² For John came to you with a way of uprightness, and you would not believe him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes believed him, but even after seeing that, you would not change your minds and believe him!

¹² So they went out and preached that men should repent,

¹⁶ and he will turn many of Israel's descendants to the Lord their God.

⁸ Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you, God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones! ⁹ But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire." ¹⁰ The crowds would ask him, "Then what ought we to do?" ¹¹ And he answered, "The man who has two shirts must share with the man who has none, and the man who has food must do the same." ¹² Even tax-collectors came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Master, what ought we to do?" ¹³ He said to them, "Do not collect any more than you are authorized to." ¹⁴ And soldiers would ask him, "And what ought we to do?" He said to them, "Do not extort money or make false charges against people, but be satisfied with your pay."

³ No, I tell you; unless you repent, you will all perish as they did!

⁵ No, I tell you; unless you repent, you will all perish as they did!"

⁷ I tell you, in just that way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinful person who repents, than over ninety-nine upright people who do not need any repentance.

¹⁰ In just that way, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God over one sinful person who repents!"

⁸ But Zaccheus stopped and said to the Master, "See, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay him four times as much." ⁹ Jesus said to him, "Salvation has come to this house today, for he too is a descendant of Abraham.

⁴⁶ and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name.

³⁸ Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,

¹⁹ So repent and turn to God, to have your sins wiped out, and happier times will come from the presence of the Lord,

¹⁵ The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel.

¹⁹ and, after taking some food, regained his strength. Saul stayed for some time with the disciples at Damascus, ²⁰ and began at once to declare in the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God. ²¹ Everyone was astonished, and said, "Is not he the man who made such havoc of the people in Jerusalem who call upon that name, and who came here especially for the purpose of arresting such persons and taking them before the high priests?" ²² But Saul grew more and more powerful, and bewildered the Jews who lived in Damascus by his proofs that Jesus was the Christ. ²³ After some time had passed, the Jews made a plot to kill him, ²⁴ but Saul found out about the plot. They watched the city gates day and night, in order to kill him, ²⁵ but his disciples took him one night and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket. ²⁶ When he reached Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, for they could not believe that he was really a disciple. ²⁷ But Barnabas got hold of him and introduced him to the apostles, and he told them how on his journey he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how boldly he had spoken for the cause of Jesus at Damascus. ²⁸ After that, he associated with them freely in Jerusalem, ²⁹ and spoke boldly for the Lord's cause, talking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews. But they tried to kill him.

³⁵ And everybody who lived in Lydda or in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

¹⁸ When they heard this, they made no further objection, but they gave honor to God, and said, "Then God has given even the heathen repentance and the hope of life!"

²⁶ and found him and brought him to Antioch. The result was that for a whole year they met with the church, and taught large numbers of people, and it was at Antioch that the disciples first came to be known as Christians. ²⁷ About that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch, ²⁸ and one of them named Agabus got up and under the influence of the Spirit revealed the fact that there was going to be a great famine all over the world. This was the famine that occurred in the reign of Claudius. ²⁹ The disciples determined to make up a contribution, each according to his ability, and send it to the brothers who lived in Judea, ³⁰ and this they did, sending it to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly, and said, "God's message had to be told to you first, but since you thrust it off and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the heathen. ⁴⁷ For these are the orders the Lord has given us: " 'I have made you a light for the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth!' " ⁴⁸ When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,

¹⁵ and shouting, "Friends, why are you doing this? We are only human beings like you, and we bring you the good news that you should turn from these follies to a living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain. ¹⁶ In ages past he let all the heathen follow their own ways; ¹⁷ though he did not fail to give some evidence about himself, through his kindnesses to you, in sending you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, giving you food and happiness to your heart's content." ¹⁸ Even with these words they could hardly restrain the people from offering sacrifice to them. ¹⁹ But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead. ²⁰ But the brothers gathered about him, and he got up and re-entered the town. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. ²¹ They proclaimed the good news in that town and made a number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

¹⁹ In my opinion, therefore, we ought not to put obstacles in the way of those of the heathen who are turning to God,

³⁰ While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent,

²¹ but earnestly urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn to God in repentance and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

¹⁷ After I had returned to Jerusalem, one day when I was praying in the Temple, I fell into a trance, ¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, for they will not accept your evidence about me.' ¹⁹ And I said, 'Lord, they know that I used to go through one synagogue after another, and to imprison and flog those who believed in you, ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and took charge of the clothes of the men who killed him.' ²¹ But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' " ²² They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

¹⁷ I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you

⁴ Do you think so lightly of his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience, and fail to see that God's kindness ought to induce you to repent?

¹⁸ you must not look down upon the branches. If you do, remember that you do not support the root; the root supports you. ¹⁹ "But," you will say, "branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in!" ²⁰ That is true; but it was for their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is through your faith that you stand where you do. You ought not to feel proud; you ought to be afraid,

¹⁶ but "whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is removed."

¹⁰ For the pain that God approves results in a repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets; but the world's pain results in death.

¹⁷ So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding. ¹⁸ They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart, ¹⁹ for they have become callous, and abandoned themselves to sensuality, greedily practicing every kind of vice. ²⁰ That is not the way you have been taught what Christ means, ²¹ at least if you have really become acquainted with him and been instructed in him, and in union with him have been taught the truth as it is found in Jesus. ²² You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. ²³ You must adopt a new attitude of mind, ²⁴ and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth. ²⁵ So you must lay aside falsehood and each tell his neighbor the truth, for we are parts of one another.

¹⁷ So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. ¹⁸ Do not get drunk on wine, for that is profligacy, but be filled with the Spirit, ¹⁹ and speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and sacred songs. Sing praise to God with all your hearts; ²⁰ always give thanks for everything to God our Father, as followers of our Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ and subordinate yourselves to one another out of reverence to Christ. ²² You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord, ²³ for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, which is his body, and is saved by him. ²⁴ Just as the church is in subjection to Christ, so married women must be, in everything, to their husbands. ²⁵ You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

¹ Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right. ² "You must honor your father and mother"—that is the first commandment accompanied with a promise— ³ "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth." ⁴ You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction. ⁵ You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ, ⁶ not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but like slaves of Christ, carrying out the will of God. ⁷ Do your duties heartily and willingly, as though it were for the Lord, not for men, ⁸ for you know that everyone, slave or free, will be rewarded by the Lord for his good conduct. ⁹ You who are masters, too, must treat your slaves in the same way, and cease to threaten them, for you know that their Master and yours is in heaven, and that he will show no partiality.

⁹ For when people speak of us, they tell what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a true and living God,

²⁵ correcting his opponents with gentleness; for God may possibly let them repent and acknowledge the truth, ²⁶ and they may yet return to their senses and escape from the toils of the devil, who has caught them to make them do his will.

² Teach the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible—men of vigorous faith, love, and steadfastness. ³ Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right, ⁴ so as to train the younger women to be loving wives and mothers, ⁵ and to be sensible, pure-minded, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so as not to bring reproach on God's message. ⁶ Urge the younger men, too, to be sensible. ⁷ In every way set them an example of good conduct yourself. Teach with sincerity and seriousness, ⁸ and present a wholesome, unobjectionable message, so that your opponent may be put to shame at finding nothing bad to say about us. ⁹ Tell slaves always to obey their masters and try to please them, not to oppose them ¹⁰ or steal from them, but to show such perfect good faith as to do credit to the teaching about God our Savior, by everything they do. ¹¹ For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men, ¹² training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world, ¹³ while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant, ¹⁵ but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶ for the Scripture says, "You must be holy, Because I am holy."

⁹ But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light; ¹⁰ you who were once "no people" but are now "God's people"; once "unpitied" but now "pitied indeed." ¹¹ Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul. ¹² Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.

² and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills. ³ You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry. ⁴ They are amazed that you no longer join them in plunging into the flood of dissipation, and they abuse you for it; ⁵ but they will have to answer for it to him who is ready to judge living and dead.

⁵ For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, ⁶ knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love. ⁸ For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ So remember how far you have fallen, and repent and do as you did at first, or else I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place, if you do not repent.

²¹ I have given her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her immorality.

³ So remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming upon you.

¹¹ and reviled the God of heaven for their sufferings and sores, but they would not repent of what they had done.