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highlighted Romans 2:14 NLT
Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it.
May 5
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highlighted Romans 2:13 NLT
For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight.
May 5
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highlighted Romans 2:12 NLT
When the Gentiles sin, they will be destroyed, even though they never had God’s written law. And the Jews, who do have God’s law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it.
May 5
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highlighted Romans 2:10 NLT
But there will be glory and honor and peace from God for all who do good—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile.
May 5
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highlighted Romans 2:9 NLT
There will be trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on doing what is evil—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile.
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:31 NLT
boldly proclaiming the Kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ. And no one tried to stop him.
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:30 NLT
For the next two years, Paul lived in Rome at his own expense. He welcomed all who visited him,
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:27 NLT
For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes— so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.’
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:26 NLT
‘Go and say to this people: When you hear what I say, you will not understand. When you see what I do, you will not comprehend.
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:25 NLT
And after they had argued back and forth among themselves, they left with this final word from Paul: “The Holy Spirit was right when he said to your ancestors through Isaiah the prophet,
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:20 NLT
I asked you to come here today so we could get acquainted and so I could explain to you that I am bound with this chain because I believe that the hope of Israel—the Messiah—has already come.”
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:19 NLT
But when the Jewish leaders protested the decision, I felt it necessary to appeal to Caesar, even though I had no desire to press charges against my own people.
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:18 NLT
The Romans tried me and wanted to release me, because they found no cause for the death sentence.
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:17 NLT
Three days after Paul’s arrival, he called together the local Jewish leaders. He said to them, “Brothers, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Roman government, even though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors.
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:16 NLT
When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to have his own private lodging, though he was guarded by a soldier.
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:11 NLT
It was three months after the shipwreck that we set sail on another ship that had wintered at the island—an Alexandrian ship with the twin gods as its figurehead.
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:6 NLT
The people waited for him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw that he wasn’t harmed, they changed their minds and decided he was a god.
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:5 NLT
But Paul shook off the snake into the fire and was unharmed.
May 5
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highlighted Acts 28:3 NLT
As Paul gathered an armful of sticks and was laying them on the fire, a poisonous snake, driven out by the heat, bit him on the hand.
May 5