Maria Esther Torres

Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:8 ESV

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:12 ESV

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:11 ESV

We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:9-10 ESV

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:1 ESV

Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:4 ESV

No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

finished reading Isaiah 56, Isaiah 57, Isaiah 58, Psalms 100, Acts 24, Acts 25 in Bible in One Year:

Thus says the Lord: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my righteousness be revealed....

almost 11 years ago

But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:27 ESV

For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to indicate the charges against him."

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:25 ESV

But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:20 ESV

Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:19 ESV

Rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:18 ESV

When the accusers stood up, they brought no charge in his case of such evils as I supposed.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:16 ESV

I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up anyone before the accused met the accusers face to face and had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:10 ESV

But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself know very well.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:9 ESV

But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?"

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:8 ESV

Paul argued in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense."

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:7 ESV

When he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him that they could not prove.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:2 ESV

And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul, and they urged him,

almost 11 years ago

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