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highlighted Acts 7:59 NLT
As they stoned him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:57-58 NLT
Then they put their hands over their ears and began shouting. They rushed at him and dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. His accusers took off their coats and laid them at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:56 NLT
And he told them, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing in the place of honor at God’s right hand!”
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:55 NLT
But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed steadily into heaven and saw the glory of God, and he saw Jesus standing in the place of honor at God’s right hand.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:54 NLT
The Jewish leaders were infuriated by Stephen’s accusation, and they shook their fists at him in rage.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:53 NLT
You deliberately disobeyed God’s law, even though you received it from the hands of angels.”
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:52 NLT
Name one prophet your ancestors didn’t persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One—the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:49 NLT
‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that?’ asks the LORD. ‘Could you build me such a resting place?
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:48 NLT
However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says,
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:45-47 NLT
Years later, when Joshua led our ancestors in battle against the nations that God drove out of this land, the Tabernacle was taken with them into their new territory. And it stayed there until the time of King David. “David found favor with God and asked for the privilege of building a permanent Temple for the God of Jacob. But it was Solomon who actually built it.
Apr 22
Storyteller7777
highlighted Acts 7:44 NLT
“Our ancestors carried the Tabernacle with them through the wilderness. It was constructed according to the plan God had shown to Moses.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:43 NLT
No, you carried your pagan gods— the shrine of Molech, the star of your god Rephan, and the images you made to worship them. So I will send you into exile as far away as Babylon.’
Apr 22
Storyteller7777
highlighted Acts 7:42 NLT
Then God turned away from them and abandoned them to serve the stars of heaven as their gods! In the book of the prophets it is written, ‘Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings during those forty years in the wilderness, Israel?
Apr 22
Storyteller7777
highlighted Acts 7:41 NLT
So they made an idol shaped like a calf, and they sacrificed to it and celebrated over this thing they had made.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:39-40 NLT
“But our ancestors refused to listen to Moses. They rejected him and wanted to return to Egypt. They told Aaron, ‘Make us some gods who can lead us, for we don’t know what has become of this Moses, who brought us out of Egypt.’
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:38 NLT
Moses was with our ancestors, the assembly of God’s people in the wilderness, when the angel spoke to him at Mount Sinai. And there Moses received life-giving words to pass on to us.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:37 NLT
“Moses himself told the people of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your own people.’
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:36 NLT
And by means of many wonders and miraculous signs, he led them out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, and through the wilderness for forty years.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:35 NLT
“So God sent back the same man his people had previously rejected when they demanded, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?’ Through the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush, God sent Moses to be their ruler and savior.
Apr 22