Acts 24:12-21

12and athey did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or in the city. 13 bNeither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me. 14But this I confess to you, that according to cthe Way, which they call da sect, eI worship fthe God of our fathers, believing everything glaid down by the Law and written in the Prophets, 15 hhaving ia hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be ja resurrection kof both the just and the unjust. 16So I always ltake pains to have a mclear conscience toward both God and man. 17Now nafter several years oI came to bring alms to pmy nation and to present qofferings. 18While I was doing this, they found me rpurified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But ssome Jews from Asia 19 tthey ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, should they have anything against me. 20Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council, 21other than this one thing uthat I cried out while standing among them: ‘It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.’”

Acts 25:10-11

10But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s vtribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself know very well. 11If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. wI appeal to Caesar.”

1 Peter 3:17-18

17For xit is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

18For Christ also ysuffered
Some manuscripts died
aaonce for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, abthat he might bring us to God, being put to death acin the flesh but made alive adin the spirit,
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