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Acts 25:1-12

Today’s Scripture: Three days after Festus arrived, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem. 2 There the chief priests and the Jewish leaders came to Festus. They brought their charges against Paul. 3 They tried very hard to get Festus to have Paul taken to Jerusalem. They asked for this as a favor. They were planning to […]

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Psalm 23

Today’s Scripture: A psalm of David. 1 The Lord is my shepherd. He gives me everything I need.2     He lets me lie down in fields of green grass.He leads me beside quiet waters.3     He gives me new strength.He guides me in the right paths    for the honor of his name.4 Even though I walk    through the darkest valley,I will not be afraid.    You are […]

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Acts 24:22-27

Today’s Scripture: 22 But Felix, [a]having a more exact knowledge about the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the [b]commander comes down, I will decide your case.” 23 Then he gave orders to the centurion for him to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from […]

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Acts 24:10-21

Today’s Scripture: 10 When the governor had nodded for him to speak, Paul responded: “Knowing that for many years you have been a judge to this nation, I cheerfully make my defense, 11 since you can take note of the fact that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship. 12 Neither in […]

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Acts 24:1-9

Today’s Scripture: After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders, [a]with an [b]attorney named Tertullus, and they [c]brought charges to the governor against Paul. 2 After Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying to the governor, “Since we have through you attained much peace, and since by your providence […]

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Acts 23:23-35

Today’s Scripture: 23 And he called to him two of the centurions and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready by [a]the third hour of the night to proceed to Caesarea, [b]with seventy horsemen and two hundred [c]spearmen.” 24 They were also to provide mounts to put Paul on and bring him safely to Felix the governor. 25 And […]

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Acts 23:12-22

Today’s Scripture: 12 When it was day, the Jews formed a [a]conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. 13 There were more than forty who formed this plot. 14 They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under […]

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Acts 23:1-11

Today’s Scripture: Paul, looking intently at the [a]Council, said, “Brethren, I have [b]lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day.” 2 The high priest Ananias commanded those standing beside him to strike him on the mouth. 3 Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! […]

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Acts 22:17-30

Today’s Scripture: 17 “It happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance, 18 and I saw Him saying to me, ‘Make haste, and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.’ 19 And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves understand that in one […]

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Acts 22:1-16

Today’s Scripture: “Brethren and fathers, hear my defense which I now offer to you.” 2 And when they heard that he was addressing them in the [a]Hebrew dialect, they became even more quiet; and he *said, 3 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated [b]under Gamaliel, [c]strictly according […]

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