Quotes About Truth

where they continued to preach the gospel.

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.

The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:

that have been known for ages.í

It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.

This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!”

Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

So the officers relayed this message to the magistrates, who were alarmed to hear that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.

and Jason has welcomed them into his home. They are all defying Caesarís decrees, saying that there is another king, named Jesus!”

Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by manís skill and imagination.

For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”

“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.

But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio told the Jews, “If this matter involved a wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to hear your complaint.

For he powerfully refuted the Jews in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.

So the word of the Lord powerfully continued to spread and prevail.

About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way.