Philippians 1:12

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Philippians 1:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

12 Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have actually served to advance the gospel.

13 As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.

14 And most of the brothers, confident in the Lord by my chains, now dare more greatly to speak the word without fear.

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Acts 21:28

crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”

Acts 21:29

For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

Acts 21:30

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

Acts 21:31

While they were trying to kill him, the commander of the Roman regiment received a report that all Jerusalem was in turmoil.

Acts 21:32

Immediately he took some soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Acts 21:33

The commander came up and arrested Paul, ordering that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.

Acts 21:34

Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, and some another. And since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks.

Acts 21:35

When Paul reached the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob.

Acts 21:36

For the crowd that followed him kept shouting, “Away with him!”

Acts 22:1

“Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense before you.”

Acts 22:2

When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more silent. Then Paul declared,

Acts 22:3

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.

Acts 22:4

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

Acts 22:5

as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to apprehend these people and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.

Acts 22:6

About noon as I was approaching Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me.

Acts 22:7

I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’

Acts 22:8

‘Who are You, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,’ He replied.

Acts 22:9

My companions saw the light, but they could not understand the voice of the One speaking to me.

Acts 22:10

Then I asked, ‘What should I do, Lord?’ ‘Get up and go into Damascus,’ He told me. ‘There you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’

Acts 22:11

Because the brilliance of the light had blinded me, my companions led me by the hand into Damascus.

Acts 22:12

There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the law who was highly regarded by all the Jews living there,

Acts 22:13

came and stood beside me. ‘Brother Saul,’ he said, ‘receive your sight.’ And at that moment I could see him.

Acts 22:14

Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear His voice.

Acts 22:15

You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.

Acts 22:16

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’

Acts 22:17

Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance

Acts 22:18

and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your testimony about Me.’

Acts 22:19

‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.

Acts 22:20

And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and watching over the garments of those who killed him.’

Acts 22:21

Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

Acts 22:22

The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”

Acts 22:23

As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air,

Acts 22:24

the commander ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry against him.

Acts 22:25

But as they stretched him out to strap him down, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen without a trial?”

Acts 22:26

On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commander. “What are you going to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”

Acts 22:27

The commander went to Paul and asked, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” “Yes,” he answered.

Acts 22:28

“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.

Acts 22:29

Then those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.

Acts 22:30

The next day the commander, wanting to learn the real reason Paul was accused by the Jews, released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to assemble. Then he brought Paul down and had him stand before them.

Acts 28:1

Once we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.

Acts 28:2

The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.

Acts 28:3

Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand.

Acts 28:4

When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

Acts 28:5

But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.

Acts 28:6

The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

Acts 28:7

Nearby stood an estate belonging to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

Acts 28:8

The father of Publius was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him, and after praying and placing his hands on him, he healed the man.

Acts 28:9

After this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured as well.

Acts 28:10

The islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.

Acts 28:11

After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.

Acts 28:12

Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.

Acts 28:13

From there we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day, a south wind came up, and on the second day we arrived at Puteoli.

Acts 28:14

There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so we came to Rome.

Acts 28:15

The brothers there had heard about us and traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he was encouraged and gave thanks to God.

Acts 28:16

When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

Acts 28:17

After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

Acts 28:18

They examined me and wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

Acts 28:19

But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.

Acts 28:20

So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

Acts 28:21

The leaders replied, “We have not received any letters about you from Judea, nor have any of the brothers from there reported or even mentioned anything bad about you.

Acts 28:22

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

Acts 28:23

So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

Acts 28:24

Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

Acts 28:25

They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:

Acts 28:26

‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

Acts 28:27

For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

Acts 28:28

Be advised, therefore, that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”

Acts 28:30

Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.

Acts 28:31

Boldly and freely he proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”

Esther 9:1

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.

Psalms 76:10

Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.

Acts 8:4

Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.

Acts 11:19

Meanwhile those scattered by the persecution that began with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message only to Jews.

Acts 11:20

But some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks as well, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.

Acts 11:21

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

Romans 8:28

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

Romans 8:37

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

2 Timothy 2:9

for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!