Acts 6:14 Cross References - Riverside

¹⁴ We have heard him say that this Jesus, the Nazarene, will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

¹ JESUS left the Temple courts and was going away when his disciples came to point out to him the Temple buildings. ² He answered them, "Do you not see all these things? I tell you truly there will not be left here one stone upon another which will not be thrown down."

⁶¹ and said, "This man said, 'I can pull down the Temple of God and in three days build it up again.' "

⁵⁸ "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this Temple made by hands and in three days I will build another not made by hands.'

³⁴ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often would I have gathered your children as a bird gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! ³⁵ See, your house is left to you! I tell you, you will not see me until the day when you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' "

⁶ he said, "As to these things that you are looking at, there will come days in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be thrown down."

²⁴ and they will fall by the edge of the sword and will be taken as captives into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles have gone by.

²¹ Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

¹ BUT certain men came down from Judaea and undertook to teach the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

²¹ These have heard reports that you are teaching all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to break away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to observe the customs.

⁸ while Paul claimed in his own defense, "Neither against the Jewish Law nor against the Temple courts nor against Caesar, have I committed any wrong."

³ since you are especially expert in all Jewish customs and questions. Therefore I pray you to hear me patiently.

¹⁷ After three days he invited the leading men among the Jews, and when they had assembled, he said to them, "Brethren, although I had done nothing against our people or our ancestral customs, I was delivered up as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

¹⁹ Why then was the Law? It was added later to make transgressions, until the Offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.

²³ Before faith came we were guarded under law, shut up waiting for the faith that was to be revealed.

³ So we, when we were under age, were enslaved under the elementary lessons of the world; ⁴ but, when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son born of a woman, born under the Law, ⁵ that he might redeem those who were under Law, that we might receive the recognition as sons.

¹¹ If, then, perfection had been through the Levitical priesthood, — for on the basis of that the people received the Law — what need was there for another kind of priest to arise and not be called of the order of Aaron? ¹² For when the priesthood has been changed there comes of necessity also a change of law. ¹³ For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has ever had anything to do with the altar. ¹⁴ For it is plain that our Lord has arisen from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. ¹⁵ And this is yet more abundantly evident if after the order of Melchizedek there arises a priest of a different kind ¹⁶ who has become such, not according to the law of a commandment made for the flesh, but according to the power of unending life. ¹⁷ For it is affirmed of him, "Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." ¹⁸ There is a setting aside of the earlier commandment because of its weakness and uselessness — ¹⁹ for the Law brought nothing to perfection — and there is the bringing in of a better hope through which we draw near to God.

⁶ But now Christ has obtained a ministry as much more excellent as the covenant of which he is mediator is better and based upon better promises. ⁷ For if that first covenant had been faultless a place would not have been sought for a second. ⁸ But finding fault with it he says, "The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make for the house of Israel and for the house of Judah a new covenant, ⁹ not in the manner of the covenant which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not abide by my covenant and I ceased to care for them, says the Lord. ¹⁰ This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds and will write them upon their hearts and I will be their God and they will be my people. ¹¹ They shall not teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother saying, 'Know the Lord'; for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them, ¹² and I will be merciful to their wrong-doings and their sins I will remember no more." ¹³ In saying "new" he has pronounced the first covenant old. But what grows old and decadent is near to disappearance.

⁹ That is a symbol, for the time being, in accordance with which gifts and sacrifices are offered, though they cannot make the worshiper perfect in his conscience, ¹⁰ since they consist only of foods and drinks and various baths — rules respecting the flesh, imposed until the time of reformation. ¹¹ But when Christ came as High Priest of the good things that have come, he entered once for all through the greater and more perfect Tent not made by hands — that is, not of this creation —

¹ FOR the Law with a shadow of the good things that are coming, but not the very likeness of the things, cannot, by the same sacrifices which they offer constantly every year, ever make perfect those who come, ² since would they not have ceased offering them? Because the worshipers, once for all cleansed, would have had no consciousness of sins. ³ But in the sacrifices these are called to mind every year. ⁴ For the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take away sins. ⁵ Therefore on coming into the world he says, "Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire: a body thou hast prepared for me. ⁶ Whole burnt offerings and sin offerings thou dost not delight in. ⁷ Then I said, 'Here I have come — in the roll of the book it is written of me — to do thy will, O God.' " ⁸ He first says, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings thou dost not desire nor delight in," such as are offered according to the Law, ⁹ and then he says, "Here I have come to do thy will." He takes away the first to establish the second. ¹⁰ By this "will" we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ¹¹ Every priest stands daily doing service and offering many times the same sacrifices, although they never can take away sins. ¹² But this Priest after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, took his seat at the right hand of God, ¹³ for the future only waiting until his enemies are made his footstool. ¹⁴ For by one offering he has forever perfected those who are made holy. ¹⁵ The Holy Spirit testifies this to us; for after having said, ¹⁶ "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and on their minds I will write them," he adds, ¹⁷ "and their sins and their law-breakings I will remember no more." ¹⁸ But where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

²⁶ His voice then shook the earth, but now he has announced, "Yet once for all I shall shake not only the earth but also heaven." ²⁷ And this expression "yet once for all" shows the removal of the things shaken, as of things that have been made, that the unshaken things may remain. ²⁸ So then, since we are receiving an unshaken kingdom, let us have grace by which we may worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.