Acts 19:9

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Acts 19:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 There were about twelve men in all.

8 Then Paul went into the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.

9 But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

10 This continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.

11 God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul,

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Acts 7:51

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

Acts 18:6

But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

2 Kings 17:14

But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

Nehemiah 9:16

But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.

Nehemiah 9:29

You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

Psalms 95:8

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

Isaiah 8:14

And He will be a sanctuary— but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Jeremiah 19:15

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”

Romans 9:18

Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

Romans 11:7

What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Acts 19:23

About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way.

Acts 9:2

and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Acts 22:4

I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,

Acts 24:21

unless it was this one thing I called out as I stood in their presence: ‘It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’”

Acts 28:22

But we consider your views worth hearing, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.”

2 Timothy 1:15

You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

2 Peter 2:2

Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.

2 Peter 2:12

These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

Jude 1:10

These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.

Acts 14:4

The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.

Acts 17:4

Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few leading women.

Acts 18:7

So Paul left the synagogue and went next door to the house of Titus Justus, a worshiper of God.

Acts 18:8

Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his whole household believed in the Lord. And many of the Corinthians who heard the message believed and were baptized.

Matthew 15:14

Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 16:4

A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.

Luke 12:51

Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.

Luke 12:52

From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.

Luke 12:53

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.

2 Timothy 3:5

having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!

Acts 20:31

Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.

Proverbs 8:34

Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.

Matthew 26:55

At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.

2 Timothy 4:2

Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.