Defense

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Bible verses about “Defense”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Jeremiah 26:12Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
• Jeremiah 26:13Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
• Jeremiah 26:14As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.
• Jeremiah 26:15But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
• Jeremiah 26:16Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.
• Acts 4:8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
• Acts 4:9If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
• Acts 4:10Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
• Acts 4:11This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
• Acts 4:12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
• Acts 4:13Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
• Acts 5:23Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
• Acts 5:24Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
• Acts 5:25Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
• Acts 5:26Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
• Acts 5:27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
• Acts 5:28Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
• Acts 5:29Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
• Acts 23:1And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
• Acts 23:2And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
• Acts 23:3Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
• Acts 23:4And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God’s high priest?
• Acts 23:5Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
• Acts 23:6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
• Acts 24:10Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
• Acts 24:11Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
• Acts 24:12And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
• Acts 24:13Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
• Acts 24:14But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
• Acts 24:15And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
• Acts 24:16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
• Acts 24:17Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
• Acts 24:18Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
• Acts 24:19Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.
• Acts 24:20Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
• Acts 24:21Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
• Acts 26:1Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
• Acts 26:2I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:
• Acts 26:3Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
• Acts 26:4My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;