Acts 4:29

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Summary

Acts 4:29

And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

Behold

That

General references

2 Corinthians 13:8

Bible References

Behold

But so that it will not spread any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any man in this name.”

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to reproach the living God.

Look down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious habitation;

Where are Your zeal and Your mighty deeds?
The stirrings of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained toward me.

Until the Lord

looks down

And sees from heaven.

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
Look, and see our reproach!

O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not

presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.

That

Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.

But Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how at Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

Therefore they spent a long time there speaking boldly with reliance upon the Lord, who was testifying to the word of His grace, granting that

signs and wonders be done by their hands.

And he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

For the king

knows about these matters, and I speak to him also with confidence, since I am persuaded that none of these things escape his notice; for this has not been done in a corner.

preaching the kingdom of God and teaching concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all openness, unhindered.

“Cry loudly, do not hold back;
Raise your voice like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their transgression
And to the house of Jacob their sins.

And you, son of man, neither fear them nor fear their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions; neither fear their words nor be dismayed at their presence, for they are a rebellious house.

On the other hand I am filled with power—
With the Spirit of the Lord—
And with justice and courage
To make known to Jacob his rebellious act,
Even to Israel his sin.

With all prayer and petition

pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view,

be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my

imprisonment, have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear.

but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much

opposition.

For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.

General references

For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.